After the attack, the alligator was removed from the community pond and euthanized, according to officials.
BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. - An 88-year-old woman from South Carolina is dead after she was attacked by an alligator, according to sheriff’s officials.
A sheriff’s deputy said there are around 200 lagoons and ponds in the Sun City community and that the assumption should be there are alligators in most of those bodies of water.
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