Washington.- A 69-year-old woman died this Tuesday after being attacked by an alligator while walking her dog in the vicinity of a lagoon in South Carolina (USA), local authorities reported.
After the attack, rescue agents found the unconscious woman on the edge of the lagoon, located near a golf course on Hilton Head Island, and they tried to revive her but the alligator returned and interrupted her work.
Finally, police and firefighters recovered the lifeless body of the woman, a resident of the area, and saved it for Beaufort County authorities to perform an autopsy.
“Deputies discovered the woman was walking her dog this morning when the attack occurred,” the county sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Authorities did not say whether the dog was injured in the accident.
This is the second deadly alligator attack in Beaufort County in less than a year.
In August 2022, a specimen of these reptiles killed an 88-year-old woman near her home in Sun City.
