A six-year previous boy has suffered “potentially life-changing” accidents after he was brutally mauled by an American Staffordshire terrier.

The canine was humanely destroyed by police following the kid's ordeal.

South Yorkshire Police officers have been referred to as to Highfields, Doncaster, on May 11, after studies of a kid being attacked by a canine.

Officers seized the animal, which was later put down, from a property on South Street.

According to authorities, the boy’s accidents are doubtlessly “life-changing.”

A person in his 40s was additionally taken to hospital together with the boy, though his accidents usually are not mentioned to be severe.

No arrests have been made, as police proceed the investigation.