COLLEGE SPRINGS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say two family dogs that fatally mauled a 7-year-old College Springs boy have been euthanized. Malaki Mildward, a first-grader, died shortly after the attack Thursday afternoon. Page County Sheriff Lyle Palmer tells the Omaha World-Herald that the dogs were 6-month-old puppies — a 25-pound female and a 35-pound male. Palmer says the dogs were mixed-breeds with some bulldog heritage and had shown no signs of aggression.

Palmer said the boy’s family also euthanized another family dog — a bulldog mix who was not involved in the attack on the boy. Authorities believe Malaki went outside to play with the puppies, as he often did, when he was mauled. No one witnessed the attack.