TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- A police dog bit two officers during a chase after the dog apparently became confused when the officers ran in front of it.
The two officers were treated at a hospital for their injuries and released, police said.
The dog attacked the two _ West Terre Haute Officer Derek Cerny and Terre Haute Officer Bryan Baker _ as several patrolmen ran after a man who fled from a minivan after a three-mile chase Thursday.
Terre Haute Officer Brian Worley said he released his German shepherd to help stop the fleeing man. Instead, the dog attacked Cerny and Baker.
"It was mass chaos," Worley said. "I let the dog go in front of the suspect. (The officers) couldn't hear because of all the sirens going and ran right in front of the dog."
As Worley first ordered the dog to stop, "he just couldn't hear me _ just like all the officers couldn't hear me."
When the dog stopped its attack, Baker had two puncture wounds to his right forearm while Cerny had been bitten on his right hip, right leg and right side of his face.
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