On Lunar New Year’s Eve, people around the world were attending festive family reunion dinners.
But in Taiwan, a tragedy unfolded as a 21-year-old woman, Ms Huang, was found dead in her home.
Upon investigation, coroners found that her body was eaten by her five dogs after her death.
Her pets are believed to have done so due to hunger after their owner’s passing, reported Yahoo News.
During a press conference on Saturday (28 Jan), the Taiwan police said that on 21 Jan, Chinese New Year’s Eve, at 6pm, Ms Huang and her boyfriend, who lived together, went to her family’s reunion dinner.
After dinner, Ms Huang felt ill and headed to their Taichung home to rest while her boyfriend went to work.
But when he returned home at around 10pm, he found that Ms Huang had passed away.
He notified the police, suspecting that she was bitten to death by her pet dogs.
When police arrived at the scene, she was pronounced dead on the spot.
ET Today reported that her body had been gruesomely mutilated by the dogs.
Her head, face, and thigh were bitten and gnawed at, to the extent that her skull and internal organs were exposed.
The case was later referred to forensics for examination.
Ms Huang’s boyfriend told police that she had undergone kidney dialysis in the past two weeks.
After dialysis, she would develop epilepsy symptoms. Because of this, she had been taking medication for both epilepsy and liver disease.
In addition to that, the locked door of her home showed no signs of damage or fighting.
Preliminary investigations by forensics found that Ms Huang was only eaten by the dogs after her death, reported ET Today.
She was not killed by a dog attack.
Ms Huang owned five dogs — two French bulldogs, an English bulldog, a golden retriever, and a mixed-breed dog.
According to Yahoo News, the dogs are believed to have eaten her body to satisfy their hunger after Ms Huang’s death.
The exact cause of her death remains to be determined after taking blood samples.
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Featured image adapted from Love Your Dog and 8World News. Left image for illustration purposes only.
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