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The alligator first attacked the dog and when the woman tried to save the dog, she too was attacked. The dog survived. [7] [8] August 15, 2022: Nancy Becker, 88, female South Carolina — The victim was in her backyard in a gated Sun City community in Bluffton, and was attacked by a nearly 10-foot-long alligator. The victim's body was found ...
An 85-year-old woman has been killed in Florida after being attacked by a 10-foot alligator after she fought to wrestle her dog from its jaws.. The attack happened on the banks of a lake at the ...
While fatal alligator attacks are typically rare, there have been three fatalities within five years in Beaufort County. Meanwhile, other attacks have occurred that have resulted in serious injury.
Only nine fatal attacks occurred in the United States throughout the 1970s–1990s, but American alligators killed 12 people between 2001 and 2007. An additional report of alligator attacks showed a total of 376 injuries and 15 deaths recorded all from 1948 to 2004, leading this to an increase of the alligator population. [ 149 ]
Beaufort County has seen seven alligator attacks in the last six years, three of which were fatal. The incidents have long sparked debate about whether the apex predators can coexist with residents.
Alligator attacks have been happening from Hilton Head, South Carolina to New Iberia, Louisiana. Here's how to protect yourself from an encounter.
This is the second fatal alligator attack in Beaufort County in less than a year. On Aug. 15, 2022, an 88-year-old Sun City woman was killed by an alligator while doing yardwork beside a lagoon ...
A large adult American alligator. Crocodile attacks on humans are common in places where large crocodilians are native to human populations. Some 1,000 people are killed by crocodilians each year, [1] with attacks occurring most frequently in the Southern US states and Australia.