Dog eats leg of man found dead

MELBOURNE;

Police checking on a home in suburban
Australia found the body of a man whose
leg had been gnawed to the bone by a dog,
report said Thursday .

The man reported to be 49 but not named
,was found by police and council staff
making a welfare check, southwest of
Melbourne on Tuesday ,Victoria state
police and the Greater Geelong  City
council said in a statement,

Neighbours had reported persistent barking
from a dog inside the house in a suburb
of Geelong ,the Geelong Advertiser  said,

Poice looked through the door at the rear
of the house and saw a male on the bed
'Sergeant David Magher told the Newspaper

"His right leg was missing and the other
gnawed to the bone ,The dog inside the unit
appeared to be extremely aggressive  so
council rangers were called in to restrain
the dog"

It was no known what breed of dog was
involved or whether  the man was already
dead when the dog starting eating his leg.

Police said his death was not being treated as
suspicious ,with a report to be prepared
for the coroner.
The newspaper said the man was last seen
four weeks earlier and lived by himself.
AFP