Alligator attacks, kills woman canoeing on central Florida lake

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Lake Wales, Fla. — An alligator attacked and killed a pistillate connected a cardinal Florida water Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

The onslaught occurred adjacent the rima of Tiger Creek into Lake Kissimmee, southbound of Orlando, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said successful a quality release.

A pistillate was canoeing erstwhile she encountered an alligator and "went into the water," the FWC said. The pistillate was aboriginal recovered from the h2o and declared dead.

Polk County Sheriff's Office deputies and marine units assisted with the search. The pistillate had been with different idiosyncratic astatine the clip of the attack, sheriff's officials said.

Investigators didn't merchandise immoderate details astir the onslaught oregon the alligator. A contracted nuisance alligator trapper has been dispatched to the area.

Serious injuries caused by alligators are uncommon successful Florida, officials said. The FWC administers a Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program (SNAP) to region alligators believed to airs a menace to people, pets oregon property.

The FWC says radical determination and everyplace should heed this advice:

Keep a harmless region if you spot an alligator.
Keep pets connected a leash and distant from the water's edge. Pets often lucifer alligators' earthy prey.
Swim lone successful designated swimming areas during daylight hours and without your pet. Alligators are astir progressive betwixt dusk and dawn.
Never provender an alligator. It's amerciable and dangerous. When fed, alligators tin suffer their earthy wariness and alternatively larn to subordinate radical with the availability of food. This tin pb to an alligator becoming a nuisance and needing to beryllium removed from the wild.