Alligator attacks, kills a woman in canoeing with her husband on the lake in Florida: “He tried to fight the Gator”

An alligator attacked and killed a woman who was canoeing with her husband on a central lake in Florida on Tuesday afternoon, the authorities announced, after his spouse tried not to take over the predator.

The attack occurred near the mouth of Tiger Creek in Lake Kissimmee, south of Orlando, said Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Major de la FWC Evan Laskowski said that the woman, a 61 -year -old woman from Davenport, in Florida, was seated in the prow of a 14 -foot canoe when the attack occurred. She and her husband were in about two and a half feet of water when the boat passed over a large alligator, he said.

“The Alligator beat and tilted the canoe. The two individuals found themselves in the water,” said Laskowski. “She found herself above the alligator in the water and was bitten. Her husband tried to intervene but failed.”

The woman was then recovered from the water and declared dead.

The deputies of the Polk County Sheriff and the Marine Units helped research and resumption.

A radio transmission from the incident sheriff's office was obtained by Affiliate CBS WKMG. “Gator caught it out of the canoe”, can be heard the deputy for a sheriff. “He tried to fight the Gator. We are in the last place he saw it. He left the paddle here where he saw her for the last time.”

Laskowski said Nuisité Alligator Trappers was called to the scene on Tuesday evening and that they recovered two alligators. One measured more than 11 feet long “corresponding to the length and description of the alligator involved in the incident,” he said, and the second alligator was about 10 to 11 feet long.

Officials only said if none of the alligators would be euthanized.

The serious injuries caused by alligators are rare in Florida, officials said. The FWC administers a Nuisance alligator program on the state scale (SNAP) To remove alligators, supposed to constitute a threat to people, pets or property.

The FWC says people there and everywhere should take this advice into account:

• Keep a safety distance if you see an alligator.
• Keep the pets on a leash and far from the water edge. Pets often resemble the natural prey of alligators.
• Swimming only in the swimming areas designated during the hours of clarity and without your pet. Alligators are the most active between twilight and dawn.
• Never feed an alligator. It is illegal and dangerous. When they are fed, alligators can lose their natural mistrust and learn to associate people with the availability of food. This can lead an alligator to become a nuisance and need to be removed from nature.

John Maclauchlan contributed to this report.