A woman who was mauled by her two
American pit bulls terriers died in hospital Friday.
The dogs attacked the woman, 76, in her yard in the Lombard
town of Inverigo.
Neighbors alerted authorities, and Carabinieri police had
to fire a shot into the air to scare the two dogs away long
enough to rescue the woman, who had gone into cardiac arrest.
The dogs had toppled her to the ground and bitten one of
her ears off. Police found it in the grass and handed it over to
ambulance personnel.
The pensioner, who had lost a lot of blood, was choppered
to Niguarda Hospital where she went into surgery and died
shortly after.
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