/ 7 February 2001

PROBE INTO POLICE DOG ATTACK

MPUMALANGA police who allegedly set dogs on schoolchildren at an inter-school athletics meeting in Secunda apparently ignored regulations that police dogs only be used during violent crimes. Police are also accused of firing live ammunition at the stadium when they arrested seven children for drinking alcohol in public. Two children who were bitten by Secunda dog unit dogs were treated at hospital. – African Eye News Service