An alligator killed an 85-year-old lady who was once strolling her canine in a senior dwelling group in Castle Pierce, southeast Florida, on Monday.
The ten-foot-long alligator first attacked Gloria Serge’s Shih Tzu as they walked via a retention pond within the Spanish Lakes Fairways group, in keeping with more than one media reviews.
The reptile then went after Serge as she tried to avoid wasting her puppy.
It reportedly dragged her into the water.
The canine survived the assault and the alligator was once captured, in step with the Florida Fish and Flora and fauna Conservation Fee.
Remaining yr, a lady was once fatally attacked via two alligators in Englewood, southwest Florida, and every other lady died in an identical instances in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Deadly alligator assaults are nonetheless uncommon, alternatively.
On its site, the fee estimates “the possibility of a Florida resident being critically injured all over an unprovoked alligator incident in Florida is kind of just one in 3.1 million.”