A YOUNG woman was torn to death by a dog who “bit her arm off” while in bedlocal residents said.
The woman, locally called Keira Ladlow, was alone in the house when she was brutally attacked by the dog believed to be owned by a family member and living at the address.
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Locals heard the girl yelling and screaming for help and the dog barking “unbelievably loud”.
Her body was found by a distraught relative.
Police and paramedics rushed to the row house in Kitts Green, Birmingham at around 2pm on Friday.
Keira, in his twenties, was pronounced dead on the spot by emergency services.
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The rescue dog, believed to be a bull mastiff, will now be “humane” laid down.
A source said: “The poor girl was heard by neighbors shouting and screaming for help.
“The screams were extremely loud. They could also hear a dog barking incredibly loud in the house. It was constant.
‘The girl was badly injured. It was horrible. It’s heartbreaking. Her family is totally devastated. ‘
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Abeygail Barrett, believed to be a relative, wrote on Facebook: “Her previous dog was a pit bull who died of cancer, so she rescued this dog after finding him in a yard he’d been on and off for four years.
“Sometimes dogs are rescued with all good intentions, but their past can make them tragically unpredictable.”
A neighbor said: ‘When the police and ambulances arrived, we were told to come out because something had happened. Then we heard that a young woman had died.
“I saw the dog being taken away and as far as I know he looked fine.
‘I had never seen it before and I heard from a neighbor that people only walked now and then. She always pulled her own dog away from it because she thought it was violent.
“I saw on the news that it was a Staffie, but it looked more like a Bull Mastiff.”
A distraught family member told The Sun, “It was a rescue dog, that’s it.”
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A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: “There was no one else in the property at the time, and the woman’s family has signed the dog, presumably a Staffordshire cross, to the police. It will be humbly put to sleep. .
“The death is treated as a tragic incident, but without suspicious circumstances.
“A file will be prepared for the coroner in due course.”
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