Brooklyn Park police are reporting another child was injured in a second dog attack in the city in less than a week.

On Tuesday, the Brooklyn Park Police Department received a report that a seven-year-old girl was attacked by a dog around 4:40 p.m.

Officers arrived at the 7500 block of Janell Avenue North and found the girl had received superficial injuries from the attack.

Brooklyn Park police continued to look for the dog in the area, which was at large. While officers attempted to secure the dog, they said the animal attempted to attack another child.

Officers said they killed the dog, and the incident is still under investigation.

It’s the second dog attack in Brooklyn Park in less than a week. A 3-year-old boy was attacked by two dogs on Friday, putting the boy in critical condition. An adult was severely injured as well.

“It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen in my law enforcement career,” Brooklyn Park Police Inspector Elliot Faust said. “One of the common denominators that we have responded to is the breed of the animal. The breed of the animal in all these cases has been a pit bull.”

Dawn Glaser-Falk, owner of Cloud Nine Training School for Dogs in Maple Grove, has some tips to protect yourself during a dog attack.

“Carry pepper spray,” Glaser-Falk said. “Sometimes kicking, sometimes grabbing back legs to put them off balance. Noise can be effective, so an air horn. Pick up a stick, grab a handful of rocks, anything you can do. The worst things you can do are run, because they will chase. Screaming and squealing are bad because that just gets their adrenaline going further and makes a more severe attack.”