mad dog kills woman and injures three people including two police officers in Boston

Panic in the streets of Boston, in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. A dog, crossed with a pit bull, killed a woman Monday evening, injured a man and bit two police officers during their intervention in a neighborhood of the American city, reports the Associated Press this Tuesday, November 19.

The events took place at 5 p.m. (11 p.m. in France). Boston police dispatched two officers to the Roxbury neighborhood on the city's south side after being called to a dog attack. On site, the authorities discovered a woman in a state of absolute emergency and a man injured by a bite. Both victims were the dog's owners.

“The officers made the decision to shoot” the dog after seeing the state of health of the two victims, said Paul McLaughlin, deputy chief of the Boston police, during a press briefing Monday evening. When the officers intervened, the dog rushed towards them and bit two of them. They finally shot him dead. The two injured officers were taken to hospital. The woman died of her injuries in hospital. Three other dogs, which lived on the victims' property, were seized.