Elderly woman from Murcia killed by dog attack: second case in a week. There were no microchips or documents.

A 96-year-old woman died in hospital last Saturday from injuries sustained in an attack by two dogs in the town of Alguazas (Murcia) a few days ago, according to the publication La Verdad.

The incident occurred last Tuesday evening when the two animals, which were not microchipped or documented, as the local publication points out, escaped from the house while the owner was out of bounds. The dogs, a cross between an American Staffordshire Terrier and an American Bullie, bit an elderly woman in various parts of her body and ripped off one of her arms.

Medical staff were unable to help her until the dogs' owners, a 24-year-old boy and a 25-year-old girl, arrived and managed to stop the aggression and calm the animals. Doctors''provided her with first aid and transported her to Morales-Meseguerre in Murcia, where she remained in hospital until her death. This is the second death caused by a dog attack in the same week.

Also on Monday, the day before the attack on the 96-year-old woman, 27-year-old Arancha Corsero died after being attacked by seven herding dogs. The nurse, originally from Roales del Pan (Zamora), went for a walk on the road that connects her municipality with La Iniesta. It was then that the girl, talking on the phone with her mother, saw a pack of dogs heading towards her with aggressiveness. "Mom, the dogs are coming, the dogs are coming!" was the last thing she heard on the phone.

Six herding dogs attacked and killed her (five were initially reported, but it was later confirmed that their''there were two others). Although her mother immediately went in search of her, when she arrived, it was too late. Medical personnel who arrived could only confirm the young woman's death.

The person responsible for these dogs is now a shepherd and is being investigated on charges of manslaughter. The investigation is to find out the conditions under which the dogs were kept by the man.

According to EFE four years ago, more than twenty people have died since 2010 from dog attacks, most of them from dangerous breeds. EFE reports the death of a two-year-old child attacked''by a pit bull belonging to the child's family in Pasos de Borben (Pontevedra) in 2010, and a three-year-old child, also bitten by a pit bull, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the same year.

In 2010, the bodies of two homeless people, a man and a woman aged between 60 and 65, were also found in vegetable gardens in the La Llantia neighborhood of Mataro, Barcelona. Autopsy confirmed that their deaths were the result of an attack by some of the 20 dogs with which the man had lived for three years. In the same year, a man aged 55 - his 29-year-old son was injured - died in Masegal in Carcabuey (Cordoba) from an attack by two Rottweilers in a stable.

In 2011, a resident of Villanueva de las Cruces (Huelva) died from an attack by her two Rottweilers. The same year saw the death of a 14-month-old child in''Layos (Toledo) from serious injuries sustained from a large dog bite.

There were three cases in 2016: A 70-year-old man attacked by his dog, a pit bull terrier, in Beniaján (Murcia); a four-year-old child attacked by his family's dog in Jaén; and a 66-year-old man in the town of Beniarbeig, Alicante province, attacked by five dangerous breed dogs belonging to a neighbor in the area.

In 2017, three people also died from these attacks. On the one hand, a 67-year-old man who was attacked by a dog on the road between Santa Marta de Tormes and Nuevo Naarros (Salamanca). To this case is added the case of a woman from El Molar (Madrid) who was attacked by her own Canarian dog. Finally, another woman in her 40s on La Palma after''attacked by her pit bull.

In 2018, a 70-year-old resident of the Huiso Valley (Castellón) died after being bitten by a group of three or four dogs on his property; a man whose body was found in a partially decomposed state, partially eaten by his dogs, in an apartment building in Nules (Castellón); another man, 87 years old, in Ciero (Asturias), who was attacked by six dogs belonging to a neighbor he had come to visit; a three-week-old infant who died after being attacked by a Belgian sheepdog pastor in Tenerife, in the family's own home; and two women, 57 and 41 years old - a mother and daughter - in Colmenar de Oreja (Madrid), attacked by their Bordeaux dogs.

There have been two cases in 2019: An 81-year-old man attacked by three Rottweilers in Madrid's Puente de Vallecas neighborhood'' (Madrid), and a 47-year-old man in Coslada (Madrid) who was attacked by a Rottweiler to which he belonged.

In 2021, an American Staffordshire terrier killed a 32-year-old man in Cassa de la Selva (Girona), a friend of the dog's owner. Police shot the dog because it was showing aggression and could attack other residents.

There was also another victim this year: a 67-year-old woman attacked by a pit bull she found in a field a few days ago, in Macastre (Valencia).