Florida alligator-attack woman, 90, has leg amputated
08:30, 2 September 2011
LONDON. September 2. KAZINFORM A 90-year-old Florida woman has had her leg amputated after she was attacked by an alligator near her home; Kazinform refers to BBC.
The 8ft (2.4m) reptile emerged from a canal and pounced on Margaret Webb in rural Copeland on Wednesday.
A neighbour driving by saw the attack and shot at the alligator, which crawled away, leaving Ms Webb's leg nearly severed.
She was airlifted to hospital in the city of Naples where she remains in a critical condition.
'Shot in the eye'
Doctors had to remove her lower left leg.
Ms Webb's neighbour, Dwain Daniels, told the Naples Daily News that he had used a rifle to shoot the alligator in the right eye.
Wildlife officials launched a search for the reptile in the rural community near the Everglades, but without success; Kazinform cites BBC.
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