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A dog attacked two children on Sunday in Montreal North and injured both seriously enough that they needed medical attention. One was transported to a hospital by ambulance.

In the late morning, the dog bit a four-year-old child on the head, Montreal police said. Police were not called at that time to the St-Michel apartment in which the incident took place, said spokesperson Manuel Couture, but the wounds were significant enough that the child needed stitches.

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The dog, who was being looked after for friends and does not live in the apartment, was locked in a room in the apartment, he said.

But the dog managed to escape that afternoon and attacked a second child, a seven-year-old boy. The dog caused a “very significant” injury to the boy’s arm, Couture said.

A bystander intervened and managed to free the child, and then the dog tried to attack a few more children.

Although the seven-year-old was “gravely injured” and transported by ambulance to a hospital, his life was not in danger, Couture said.