On Friday, June 2, a 70-year-old British grandmother was mauled to death by her family’s dog while sunbathing in her backyard, becoming the sixth person to die from dog attacks in the UK this year.
The unidentified woman died after the dog jumped on her outside her home in Bedworth, Warwickshire, UK.
According to the DailyMail, her 49-year-old daughter urgently tried to fight off the dog as it attacked her mother, but she was also injured and was unable to halt the fatal mauling.
The daughter was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, and she and her husband, 52, were both detained for allegedly possessing a prohibited breed of dog.
Police have not yet published the couple’s identities.
While sunbathing, a family dog mauls a 70-year-old granny to death.
It is unknown what kind of dog attacked the woman, although American pit bull terriers, Japanese Tosas, Dogo Argentinos, and Fila Brasileiro varieties are prohibited in the United Kingdom.
Dogs that are dangerously out of control are likewise prohibited under UK legislation.
“Police say it was a banned breed, but I’m not sure,” the neighbour told the newspaper.
“I’m not sure what it was — it was quite large with a large head, like a bulldog-Mastiff mix.”
“When [the dog’s owner] said he got it, he said it was a rare breed and there were only six in the country,” said the unnamed neighbour.
The man, who lives across the street from where the grandma was killed, stated that the family kept the dog in the back garden and that he had never seen it act aggressively.
“No one knows why it attacked and killed the poor woman; it could have gone insane after being stung by a bee, or it could have had a brain problem,” he explained.
“It could be anything.”
Another neighbour, who did not want to be identified, stated that the grandmother appeared healthy prior to the fatal attack.
“I heard the air ambulance arrive and then saw all of the other emergency services arrive,” they explained. “I’m not sure what breed of dog it was, but it was big and lived outside.”
