Spokesperson for Surb Astvatsamayr Medical Center Gevorg Derdzyan posted the following on his Facebook page:

“The two-and-a-half-year-old child who was attached by stray dogs in her backyard in Gyumri has regained consciousness and has started breathing on her own.

The child was transferred to the Austrian Child and Mother Hospital of Gyumri with several injuries and wounds, underwent a surgery and was quickly transferred to Surb Astvatsamayr Medical Center in Yerevan.

Here doctors conducted a surgery of the jaw. The child has many injuries on her face, extremities and other parts of the body. The child’s neck is severely injured. The child is currently at the reanimation unit.

Doctors say the child is in critical but stable condition.”