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A woman was killed by an alligator while walking her dog in Hilton Head, South Carolina Tuesday morning — the second fatal gator attack in the county in less than a year, authorities said.
The 69-year-old was mauled by the beast near a lagoon bordering a golf course in the Spanish Wells community where she lived around 9:30 a.m., the sheriff’s office said.
She was found unresponsive at the edge of the lagoon and first responders weren’t immediately able to reach her after an alligator crawled out of the water and was “guarding the woman,” police said.
The 10-foot, male gator was removed from the area and the woman’s body was eventually recovered.
