Thread: Starving dogs attack and eat owner

An Indonesian man who left his nine dogs to starve while he was away on a two-week holiday was decapitated and eaten by the hungry animals when he returned home.

Police found Andre Lumboga's body ripped to pieces on Monday after a neighbourhood guard noticed a revolting smell coming from his house in the Batam Centre district of the Riau Islands, a province of Indonesia north-east of Singapore in the South China Sea.

The guard had gone to his house to investigate after noticing the 50-year-old's suitcase sitting outside the front door five days after he returned from his trip, The Sun reports.

Police chief Eriyana said the man's skull was found in a different room to his body.

"We suspect that the dogs were hungry, so they attacked Andre, because they had not been fed for 14 days," Eriyana told media on Tuesday.

Seven of the nine dogs ate the two other canines before eating their master, the Jakarta Post reports.

Lumboga was from the island of Sulawesi — an area in Indonesia where the local diet famously includes dogs, bats and forest rats, The Sun reports.

Starving dogs attack and eat owner