Dogs maul German toddler to death

Four attack dogs have bitten a three-year-old girl to death in eastern Germany and badly injured her great-grandmother, who tried to rescue her.

Prosecutors opened an investigation for negligent homicide against the dogs’ owner, the girl’s aunt, police said.

The 70-year-old great-grandmother and the girl were visiting the aunt in her house in Oldisleben-Sachsenburg in Thuringia when the dogs, Staffordshire bull terriers, attacked the girl. The aunt managed to stop the dogs, which were later destroyed.