The council's dog warden, Bernadette Burns, said anyone facing attack from a dangerous dog "should stand still and do not run".

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Canadian Virginia Bennett, who lives in one of the residential apartments facing the River Thames, was getting ready to take her dog Abby for a walk when the morning calm was shattered by "the noise of metal crashing".

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