Girl Injured by Dog During Boarding for Southwest Flight

FILE - In this March 21, 2008, file photo, two Southwest Airlines jets taxi before take-off in Phoenix. Southwest Airlines says a child was hurt by a support dog in Phoenix on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, as passengers boarded a plane in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, file) The Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines said Thursday that a dog injured a child as passengers boarded a flight in Phoenix, an event likely to fuel the debate over the growing number of emotional-support animals on planes.

A passenger on Wednesday's Phoenix-to-Portland, Oregon, flight tweeted that a dog bit a girl as she approached it, and that she screamed and cried. The man, Todd Rice, did not immediately respond to a Twitter message seeking further comment.

Southwest said the dog's teeth "scraped a child's forehead" and paramedics checked the girl, who appeared to be 6 or 7 years old.

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