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This is the dramatic moment armed police swarmed a car and arrested a man after a vicious dog attack.

Firearms officers can be seen training their weapons on the Vauxhall Vectra - which was parked at the foot of Linacre House, a tower block on Heathmere Drive, in Chelmsley Wood.

Police dog handlers appear to be putting the seized animal into the back of a waiting car.

Footage, taken by a neighbour overlooking the harrowing incident, captured the moment screams rang out as a man was arrested on suspicion of owning a dangerous dog.

A woman, aged in her 50s, was left with serious injuries to her arm after she was savaged by the 'Pitbull-type' animal on Wednesday, August 7.

A West Midlands Police spokesman said: "Police, including armed officers, were called to Heathmere Drive in the Chelmsley Wood area of Birmingham just after 7.30pm yesterday (Wednesday, August 7) after a woman had been bitten by a dog.

"The 59-year-old woman was taken to hospital with a serious injury to her arm and officers from the force’s dogs unit seized the dog from the scene.

"A 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of owning a dangerous dog and remains in police custody this morning (Thursday, August 8) as enquiries continue."

At the height of the incident, there was thought to have been at least 11 police cars on scene.

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We were called at 7.27pm to a property in Fordbridge, Birmingham.

"One ambulance attended. We treated one woman, aged in her 50s, who sustained a serious injury following a bite from a dog.

"She was taken to Heartlands Hospital for further trauma care."

An eyewitness whose flat overlooks the scene, told our colleagues at BirminghamLive: "There was around 11 police cars at one point, including two undercover, one undercover van and two armed police units.

"There was a lot of shouting as police arrested the man and took him away. The officers then waited a while before they managed to capture the animal."

Other residents took to social media to tell of their horror after witnessing the attack.

They said the woman appeared to have suffered severe injuries to her arm and was 'covered in blood'.

One woman wrote: "Something to do with a dog mauling a woman. My kids were watching the drama. Lots of blood on her arm and the dog locked in a car while the police tried to work out the best way to get it out."

"It was a woman attacked by a dog, I saw it all unfold," said one local.

Another resident added: "She suffered severe damage to her arm."

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