Tragic news
A Californian woman has been killed by two hunting dogs who ran from a nearby home to attack her while she was out for a morning stroller.
Soon Han, 80, was found dead by the side of the road in the rural community of Baldy Mesa in the Mojave Desert on Friday morning.
The dogs, Dogo Argentinos, were captured and have been taken to a shelter, pending a dangerous animals hearing.
The coroner in San Bernardino County said that Han “suffered major injuries during the attack and was pronounced deceased at the scene.”
The dog owner was located and is cooperating with the investigation, the authorities added.
Dogo Argentinos are banned in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and several other countries.
They were first bred for big game hunting in Argentina, designed to take on wild boar and puma, and are described by the American Kennel Club as ‘large, powerful, and athletic’.
The attack is the third fatal dog mauling in the United States in a months.
This comes days after two children were killed when their family’s two pitbulls – which they had owned for eight years – attacked them and their mother.
A five-month-old boy and his two-year-old sister have been mauled to death by the family’s pit bulls and their mother suffered horrific injuries trying to stop the attack.
Kirstie Jane Bennard is said to have been left with bite marks all over her body and face after fighting to free her children for up to 10 minutes, a relative of the 30-year-old has said.
Two-year-old Lilly Bennard and five-month-old Hollace died while Kirstie, 30, was left with severe injuries and covered in bite marks.
The two dogs involved, Cheech and Mia, were put down. They were said to have been a part of the family for more than eight years without a violent incident.
“I can promise you those children were her (Kirstie’s) world, and if there was any inkling of danger, she would have never had those dogs near her kids,” Kirstie’s best friend, Kelsey Canfield, told Fox News Digital.
“Those children were everything to them, and they just have a really long journey ahead.”
Canfield added: “That attack lasted longer than any one of us could have ever imagined.”
The children’s dad, Colby Bennard, wasn’t home at the time of the incident. In a Facebook post, he had previously referred to the couple’s pets as “house lions.”
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