Community in shock as baby killed in dog attack

A COMMUNITY just over the Prince of Wales Bridge has been left “in shock” after a baby was killed by a dog.

- ELEANOR STOREY

Police at the scene in Crossways, Rogiet, south-east Wales, where a nine-month-old baby died after a dog attack on Sunday

(Ben Birchall/PA)

Emergency services were called to an address in Crossway, Rogiet, at 6pm on Sunday following a report of a dog attack.

A nine-month-old baby was pronounced dead at the scene in Severnside.

Peter Strong, Monmouthshire county councillor for the Rogiet ward, described the incident as “unbelievably awful”.

He said: “I think the community is very much in mourning, there’s a profound sense of shock.

“(People are) really stunned, I think.

“Clearly, our thoughts are with the

I think we all really feel it deeply, I know we're all feeling absolutely devastated

ROSE BAXTER-JONES

family, to lose a baby in these circumstances, a thing of deep joy and love, to have that taken away from you... It’s unbelievably awful.