This Italian female student who went for an afternoon stroll in the woods with her boyfriend after a romantic picnic died when she was attacked and literally torn apart by a pack of stray dogs.
Simona Cavallaro, a 20-year-old student, died after she was attacked by the dogs in the southern Italian town of Satriano this week.
Local news site Agi reports Simona and her boyfriend, who was not named, had just finished the picnic in the sun with a group of friends when they deiced to take a stroll through the woods.
The couple were attacked by a pack of stray dogs whilst they were passing through a densely wooded area.
Simona’s boyfriend eventually got away but she was torn to shred by the dogs that are reported to have ripped into every part of her body.
The boyfriend, who managed to hide from the pack of dogs in an abandoned shack, alerted the local authorities with a phone call.
Emergency services arrived at the scene and transported the 20-year-old to a local hospital who initially was still alive despite her horrific injuries covering all parts of the body.
Simona died shortly after arriving at the hospital.
Local authorities are in the process of rounding up the pack of dogs and an investigation into the student’s death has begun.
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