THESSALONIKI, GREECE (AP) – Three shepherd dogs escaped from their yard and fatally mauled a 50-year-old Greek woman in her garden yesterday, police said.
The attack took place at around 2pm in the village of Neochorouda, about 16 kilometres northwest of the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest.
The dogs escaped through a hole in their owners’ fence and ran about 80 metres to the woman’s garden, where she was working, police said.
A man, who police said is deaf-mute, was helping the woman with the gardening but was far from her at the moment of attack and could not hear her screams. Neighbours ran to assist the woman and pried the dogs away from her, but she was severely mauled and bleeding profusely. First responders who came to the scene shortly after with an ambulance confirmed her death, police said.
The 37-year-old dog owner was arrested and will face a prosecutor. The dogs are being held in a kennel and will be put down, police said.
