A six-year-old girl died Sunday after being bitten by a German shepherd in Ombrée-d'Anjou (Maine-et-Loire), we learned Monday from the Angers public prosecutor.
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Sunday around 3:00 pm, in this town located between Angers and Rennes, the little girl "
left her home, after a lunch, because she sometimes used to go on this ground where there are horses
", explained to AFP Eric Bouillard, prosecutor of Angers, confirming information from Ouest-France. She was found "
with bites on the head and was unconscious,
" and could not be saved, he adds. The gendarmes found that the dog, a German Shepherd of two years and which belonged to a neighbor friend of the family, had been killed by the owner. An investigation for manslaughter, entrusted to the gendarmerie of Segré (Maine-et-Loire), was opened, according to the same source.