XL Bully attack forced terrified woman to leap from third-storey window as the crazed animal launched a vicious assault
A TERRIFIED woman was left with serious injuries after hurling herself from a third storey window to escape a neighbour's crazed XL Bully.
The beast attacked the woman and her pals during an evening gathering at a flat in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, late on Friday.
Moments before she leapt for her life, an older friend accidentally fell from the same window as he desperately tried to fight off the beast.
The pair survived the 30-ft fall but were left with serious injuries, including bites and broken bones after landing on the concrete below.
Two further victims have been identified, a man who was treated for non-life threatening injuries to the head and body and a man who suffered a wound to the arm but declined treatment.
Witness Leon Richards, 39, said: “It was XL Bully hell, the dog went completely bonkers and attacked everyone in sight."
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He was heading up to the flat for drinks when the Bully - which had been brought over by neighbours - went berserk.
He explained: “My mate opened his front door to them, and suddenly the dog saw all the people inside and went crazy. It was a massacre.
“Everyone was trying to fend it if off, grabbing a broom and trying to whack the dog on its backside.
“But it kept coming at everyone, it was ferocious, and [my mate] tried to beat it off, as he spilled into the small hallway outside his flat the large front window was open.
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"As he was scuttling back he fell through it and landed on he ground."
The out-of-control beast is said have charged out of the flat and was “running wildly around outside” as the two victims lay on the ground.
Police were called and had to Taser the hell hound multiple times to floor it.
Leon added: "The dog should be put down, it’s crazy, and I fully support the Government ban on outing the breed, it’s a menace."
The witness said his friend has a fractured skull, a broken knee, but luckily survived.
“The young woman seemed in a bad way and was unconscious", he added.
Nottinghamshire Police seized the dog, which is now being kept in secure kennels, shortly after 11pm on Friday.
A force spokesperson said: "The dog, believed to be an XL Bully type, was subsequently seized from a nearby property and taken to secure kennels.
“A 38-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control.
"The injuries sustained are not believed to be life-threatening and an investigation is ongoing to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident."
Under rules drawn up by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), it will be illegal to “breed, sell, advertise, exchange, gift, re home, abandon or allow XL Bully dogs to stray" in England and Wales from December 31.
The incident is the latest in a recent series of dangerous dog attacks.
A child was rushed to hospital last month in South Norfolk after being bitten by two dogs.
The owner of the two animals - German Shepherd and Dogue de Bordeaux crossbreeds - handed them over to cops, who said they would be destroyed.
A man told The Sun how he feared he was about to die when a raging dog hauled him into oncoming traffic in Sheffield.
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That came a week after a man died following an attack by two dogs - thought to be American bully XLs - in Staffordshire.
Brave schoolgirl Ana Paun also told how she thought she would die when savaged in Birmingham by an XL Bully.