British tourist dies after being attacked by stray dogs in Greece
A woman who is believed to have died after being attacked by a pack of stray dogs in Greece has been named as Celia Hollingworth.
The retired Bristol University lecturer, 62, from Bradford in Avon in Wiltshire, was reported missing on Thursday.
She had made a phone call to her family to say she had been attacked by stray dogs after working back from a visit to the Mesimvria archaeological site near Petrota Beach.
She had been staying at a guest house in the nearby town of Maroneia.
It’s estimated more than a million stray dogs are in Greece, many of which have been abandoned by owners.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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