An 85-year-old woman was attacked and killed by an alligator while walking her dog in Florida. A neighbor from the city of Fort Pierce told the WPFBF TV station that the woman had been dragged into a lake by the ten-foot-long reptile before her very eyes. “She showed up and I told her, ‘Swim to the paddle boat,’ but she said, ‘I can’t, the gator is holding me,'” said a neighbor named Carol.
She called emergency services and grabbed a pole to hit the reptile or pull her friend out of the water, “but she wasn’t there.” According to the conservation authority FWC, the 85-year-old succumbed to her injuries, but her dog survived the attack.
The alligator was tracked down by a local police helicopter after the attack and caught by specialists, WPBF further reported.
Alligators are common in Florida. The chance of being seriously injured by one of the reptiles is still only one in 3.1 million, according to the conservation authority. Between 1948 and 2021, only 26 alligator attacks were fatal.
(AFP)
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