Two alligators killed an elderly woman in Florida after she fell into a pond near her home on Friday night, according to local authorities.
According to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, at around 7:47 p.m. on Friday, a woman was seen falling into a pond along the Boca Royale Golf and Country Club golf course in Englewood.
The statement shared that after the woman, who was not identified, fell into the pond, she was grabbed by the alligators.
When authorities arrived, they were able to recover the body of the woman. She was pronounced dead at the scene and the alligators have since been removed from the pond by local authorities.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has shared that alligator bites are relatively rare, but this is not the first death from the species this year.
In June, a person was killed and then dragged into a pond in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, by an alligator, and weeks earlier, a 47-year-old man was found dead in a lake filled with alligators. He was missing three limbs.
Florida has averaged eight unprovoked bites that need medical attention per year, according to a report from the commission in 2021.
"The likelihood of a Florida resident being seriously injured during an unprovoked alligator incident in Florida is roughly only one in 3.1 million," the commission said.
Still, death by a gator is rare, with only 26 people having been killed by alligator bites in Florida in the last 73 years, according to the commission.
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