The dog was unharmed.
An 8-foot alligator attacked and killed a woman Monday (Aug. 20) while she was walking her dog on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, the Charlotte Observer reported.
Witnesses said the woman was walking her dog near a lagoon in the Sea Pines area around 9:30 a.m. when the gator attacked and pulled her under the water, the story said. The dog was unharmed.
The victim was identified as Cassandra Cline, 45.
„It appears the alligator went after her dog and she tried to protect it,“ Sam Chappalear of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said in the report.
Alligator attacks are rare and the animals are usually afraid of people, South Carolina authorities said.
Read the Observer’s story.
