The district court in the Bulgarian town of Kubrat postponed on Monday the second hearing of the trial against the owner of dogs, who mauled to death a six-year-old girl.

The hearing was delayed after a biologist, one of the experts to testify in the case, failed to turn up in court.

The experts who attended the hearing and the father of the killed girl were interrogated in the court room, all giving evidence that the child was attacked by four gods, owned by the defendant Elena Bankova.

Kristiyana Kirilova died after being attacked and bitten round the throat by dogs in the center of the village of Sushevo, close to the town of Razgrad, in October last year.

The owner of the dogs, who were put to death shortly after the incident, has pleaded not guilty. Bankova faces up to three years in prison if found guilty.

The next hearing has been scheduled for May 17.

The tragedy followed a number of incidents with stray dogs around Bulgaria, including three different incidents in Bansko and Vratsa, in which sheep dogs were to blame for mauling up to five people including three children - injuring them all seriously.

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