BOSTON (AP) — A dog fatally attacked a woman Monday night and bit two police officers in a Boston neighborhood, police said.

The Boston Police Department said it responded to a report of a dog attack around 5 p.m. and found a woman with life-threatening injuries and an injured man in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood. The woman, whose name has not been released and is believed to be the dog’s owner, died in hospital.

“Obviously the dog, given what it did to the two victims, the owners of the dogs, the officers made the decision to discharge and put the dog down,” Boston Police Deputy Paul McLaughlin told reporters Monday night.

Two officers were bitten by the dog as it rushed at them, and one shot the animal. Both officers were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Three other dogs were removed from the property by the city.

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