The dog survived the attack, but the woman died from her injuries.
A HELPLESS NEIGHBOUR has described watching in horror as an elderly woman was killed by an alligator while walking her dog in a retirement community in the southern US state of Florida.
“ just remember her coming up and you know… getting air, and I’m saying swim toward the, swim toward the paddle boat, and she says, ‘I can’t, the gator has me,’” the woman told local TV station WPBF. “I thought, well I’ll put that out in the water and hook her or hit him, and — she was not there anymore.”The dog survived the attack, but the woman succumbed to her injuries, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told US media.A helicopter from the St Lucie County Sheriff’s Office helped locate the gator in the lake, WPBF reported, and trappers later dragged it out.
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