A chilling 911 call made moments after a woman was bitten by an alligator while swimming in a Florida river is giving new details on the fatal attack.
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The incident happened Sunday on the Econlockhatchee River in the Little Big Econ State Forest in Seminole County, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials said.
The 31-year-old woman from Orlando had been hiking with her boyfriend and best friend when they stopped to swim in about three feet of water, FWC officials said.
Her boyfriend was trying to get her from the gator’s mouth when he called 911 for help, officials said.
“Real bad. Please hurry,” he told a dispatcher in the 911 call as screaming, moaning and crying can be heard in the background.
A woman, possibly the victim’s friend, begins speaking with the dispatcher, who asks how bad the wounds are.
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“Terrible,” she says. “Both her arms, both her arms are off, like basically.”
“It’s horrible, severe,” she later adds.
The woman said the victim was still breathing but in bad shape.
“And did she, does she still have her arms attached to her, or does the gator have them?” the dispatcher asks.
“One of them is like barely hanging on my thread and the other was off,” the woman responds.
“Do you know where the other arm is?” the dispatcher asks.
“Gone,” she says.
FWC officials said the woman died from her injuries.
Two large gators, a 13-footer and a 12-footer, were later captured in the area, and DNA testing was being conducted to determine if either of them attacked the woman, officials said.
FWC officials said serious injuries caused by alligators are rare in Florida but added that it’s near the end of mating season when gators become very territorial.
There are alligators in all of Florida’s 67 counties and every body of fresh water could contain a gator, officials said.
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