A runner said she has "never been so scared" after claiming a man ordered his dog to chase her.

TikTok user @torlawrence was running along the North Walsham and Dilham Canal between 5.15pm and 5.45pm on Thursday when she came across a man walking a "boxer-type dog" off its lead.

In a video shared to her 1,800 TikTok followers, the runner recalled asking him to put his dog on a lead.

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She claimed that the dog owner declined her request and became argumentative.

"I took a photo of him as insurance as he was getting angry which tipped him over, lunging and chasing me to grab my phone," she explained in the video's caption.

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"But worse than that he proceeded to grab his dog and force it forward to run at me shouting ‘get her'."

A spokesman for the Old Canal Company, which owns the part of the canal where the incident happened, confirmed that dogs must be on leads at all times.

The runner managed to get away without being hurt but in the video, which has had more than 155,000 views, she said she had "never been so scared in all my life".

A spokeswoman for Norfolk Constabulary said they had received reports of a common assault and that enquiries are ongoing.