- The woman is in hospital after the accident on Via Frattina in Rome
A pregnant woman has been seriously injured after she was struck by a Rottweiler that tumbled from a third-floor balcony.
The woman is in serious condition in hospital after the accident in Via Frattina, one of Rome’s fanciest streets, on Friday.
“It landed straight on the asphalt, she took a step back and hit her head on the ground,” one person told la Repubblica.
The dog died on impact and his owner was said to be desperate, Italian news agency Ansa reported.
The woman is 28 years old and her condition is stable, reports the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero.
The woman is in hospital on Friday after the accident in Via Frattina, one of the chicest streets in Rome (archive photo)
The animal died on impact and the dog’s owner is said to be distraught, Italian news agency Ansa reports (stock image)
In April, an Italian woman was ‘torn apart’ her brother’s Rottweiler while trying to feed him.
Patrizia La Marca, 53, had stopped by her brother’s house in the seaside resort of Ventimiglia in the afternoon to care for his dog when it attacked her.
Neighbors heard her calling for help and first responders found her in a pool of blood, with gruesome bites to her head, arms, chest and shoulders.
It took first responders two hours to help La Marca due to the dog’s aggressive nature, with officers ultimately shooting and wounding him before taking him to a city kennel, il Giornale reported.
In another tragic death in Italy, the boss of an Italian cheesemaking company was crushed to death after 15,000 wheels of cheese buried him in his own factory in August.
Giacomo Chiapparini, 74, was found dead by firefighters after a plank broke at his factory in the northern region of Lombardy at around 9pm, causing a deadly domino effect that brought down thousands of wheels from Grana Padano.