Neighbours tell of horrifying screams & woman ‘running into street dripping with blood’ in deadly dog attack
NEIGHBOURS say they heard horrifying screams and saw a woman “running into street dripping with blood” in a deadly dog attack.
A 34-year-old woman has died after she was attacked by a dog in Southend-on-Sea, Essex on Monday evening.
An ambulance was called at 11.30pm and raced the woman to the Royal London Hospital, where she died on Tuesday.
Neighbour Lucy Imossi told The Sun: “I was in bed around 11.30pm and I heard a woman’s scream.
“She was shouting ‘Help, help me’. I went to the window and saw her running across from a ground floor flat.
“She was dripping with blood. You could hear it. It was dark at night and I couldn’t see exactly where the blood was coming from.
“I could just see her sort of running across while heavily bleeding into a little underpass.
“She went there and then laid herself on the ground. I could see her, and I could see she was injured.
“I woke my partner up and said ‘Someone’s injured badly. She’s really injured. We need to get down there.’
“So we got dressed and by the time we got down and got over, there were other neighbours helping already.
“She just seemed to not be conscious at that point. Her injuries were to her shoulder and her side.
“I called the police because no one had that I knew of. There was no one with her apart from neighbours.
“I didn’t even know it was a dog attack. I thought she’d been stabbed.”
Detective Superintendent Gary Biddle said: “Our deepest sympathies are with the family of the woman involved at this time.
“Our investigation into the circumstances of this tragic incident continues.”
Biddle added: “We would ask that the privacy of the woman’s family is respected.”