Rottweiler

The owner of the dogs who fatally injured a 5-year-old boy in 2016 in Kozani, western Macedonia was convicted of manslaughter on Tuesday.

According to state broadcaster ERT, the owner of the rottweilers was sentenced to four years in prison without suspension or 10 euro bail per day.

Police on Thursday were investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal mauling of a 3-month-old girl by her family's Rottweiler at their home in Glyka Nera, northeastern Athens.

The infant was pronounced dead on Thursday morning after her 35-year-old mother rushed her to the Paidon Hospital in Penteli.

A domestic dog attacked a 6-year-old boy in Sofia.

The incident took place in the yard of the 121th High School in the ''Gotse Delchev'' district of Sofia. Rottweiler has bitten the child. It was taken to Pirogov, Nova TV reported.

Police have detained two people - the owner of the dog and the person who took the dog for a walk. 

Şenol Özbakan, a former ship skipper who lived in a minibus with 12 abandoned golden retriever and Rottweiler dogs that he adopted in the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district, has died of multiple organ failure at the age of 56. 

Özbakan, who recently had a lung problem and was at risk of developing cancer, had been receiving treatment at Bodrum State Hospital.

The funeral of the 5-year-old boy who was killed in Kozani, when he was attacked by two Rottweilers on Easter Sunday, was held on Tuesday morning at the cemetery of Aghios Georgios in Kozani.

A prosecutor in the northern city of Kozani on Tuesday charged the 72-year-old owner of two Rottweilers, which attacked and killed a 5-year-old boy on Easter Sunday, with manslaughter through neglect and ordered his release from custody pending his trial.

The 72-year-old owner of a Rottweiler which bit a a five-year-old boy in Kozani on Easter Sunday, leaving him with injuries that proved to be fatal, was to face a prosecutor in the northern city on Monday.

The boy had been celebrating on Easter Sunday along with his family when the dog, a family pet, attacked him for reasons that remained unclear, biting his face. 

A 5-year old boy was killed in Kozani, northern Greece, when he was attacked by two rottweilers, Easter Sunday. The tragic event occurred when the two dogs tore down the fence of their enclosure and pounced in the little boy biting him to the neck and other parts of his body.