She said a neighbour called her while she was away, and asked if someone had been hired to tear down the vacant house.

A woman is mulling the next step to take after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in Atlanta in the US.

Susan Hodgson said in an interview with the Associated Press that she found a pile of rubble in place of what used to be her long-time family property when she returned from holiday last month.

When a person in charge at the site checked his permit, Ms Hodgson said he admitted he was at the wrong address.