I screamed as two dogs pinned me to ground and savaged my arms, legs and face – here's how I escaped | The Sun
A WOMAN who was pinned to the ground by two dogs as they savaged her arms, legs and face has told how she managed to escape.
The victim, who has not been named, relived the horror from a hospital bed on Friday.
Laid up with her arm in a sling and face stitched, she explained how she was walking through Abbots Park, south London, on Tuesday when she was mauled.
In terrifying scenes caught on camera the pitbull-looking dogs leaped up at the woman before dragging her to the ground as the owner lost complete control.
Now, the woman, in her 20s, has recalled the moment she tried fighting off the beasts latched onto her.
She said: "They ran passed me and I ignored them and then they came towards me and I asked [the owner] to take them.
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"[That was when] they started to jump at me.
"I was literally trying to push them down and fight them to get off me and then they started to get aggressive.
"One jumped and bit me on my face then I started screaming."
Telling how they bit her arms, legs and face, she said one mutt sunk its teeth into her right arm before she ripped her hoodie off and made a run for it.
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She added: "[The owner] was trying to stop them.
"One of them came on to my right arm and was biting in to my arm. He couldn't get them off.
"It was going on for a few minutes. I fell on the floor, he told me to get up and he was like 'don't run don't run'.
"Afterwards they were on my arm and he started calling for help. He was able to stop one dog but the last one was still on me.
"I had to take off my jumper and wrestle the dog off me.
"Eventually its mouth loosened and I took my jumper off and just ran out of the park.
"Then after that I fell on the floor and couldn't walk."
An urgent hunt was previously launched for the man in charge of the dogs – who left with the animals prior to cops arriving.
In the clip circulating online the woman could be seen being pinned to the ground by the beasts as she screamed out in terror.
The vicious attack unfolded as the animals jumped at the victim's face dragging her down by her hair for the second time.
As two of the dogs got on top of her while she lay helplessly on the ground, the owner managed to tackle the third and grab its collar.
Managing to get up off the grass as she screamed out in pain, the man grabbed the second animal, pulling it off her.
The owner then tried kicking the third canine, still attached to the woman, in a bid to get it to stop as he screamed: "Rocco, Rocco".
The vicious hound then bit onto the woman's arm and pulled it side to side as she was pinned up against a fence.
One of them came on to my right arm and was biting in to my arm. He couldn't get them off
Met Police cops and London Ambulance Service were scrambled to Abbots Park at 12.15noon on Tuesday.
She was rushed to hospital for "a significant injury" to her arm, the force said.
Cops said in a statement: "Officers were called at 12:15pm on Tuesday 6th June to Abbots Park, Lambeth SW2.
"A woman in her mid-20s had reported being attacked by three dogs.
"Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended the scene.
"The woman was taken to hospital where she is being treated for a significant injury to her right arm, the injuries are not life threatening.
"The man in charge of the dogs had left with the animals prior to police arrival.
"Enquires are in hand to trace the dogs and owner."
Britain is currently battling an epidemic of vicious maulings, with incidents this year already hitting a 40-year high.
In the last ten years there have been 41 deaths as a result of vicious dog attacks – and ten of these took place in the last year.
It comes after four-year-old Alice Stones was killed by her family's dog her back garden in Milton Keynes.
Wayne Stevens, 51, died following the attack inside a Derby home.
And a six-year-old boy suffered "potentially life-changing" injuries after being mauled by an American Staffordshire terrier in South Yorkshire.
The Sun recently revealed which county in the UK has seen the most fatalities in the last decade.
From 2013 to present Yorkshire has seen five deaths from dog attacks – making it the most deadly area in Britain.
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Merseyside and South Wales come in joint second for the most deathly dog attacks – with four in each county.
Manchester and Lancashire are the third worst areas for fatalities after seeing two deaths each in the last ten years.
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