Image copyright Getty Pictures Image caption An alligator pictured earlier this 12 months on the subject of the hotel the place Cassandra Cline was once killed
A 45-year-vintage woman has been killed in an alligator assault on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina.
Police answered to reviews of a girl being attacked in a lodge lagoon on Monday morning.
The sufferer, named as native resident Cassandra Cline, died at the scene after being pulled from the water.
Witnesses said she used to be attacked after seeking to offer protection to her puppy dog from the 8ft (2.4m) alligator. The dog was reportedly uninjured within the incident.
The local sheriff’s division say officers killed the animal idea to be accountable.
The Ocean Pines hotel where the lady lived and used to be attacked stated in a statement it was once “extraordinarily saddened via the inside track”.
Earlier this 12 months a FORTY SEVEN-yr-vintage canine walker was once killed in the same alligator assault in Florida.
Monday’s incident can be the primary showed deadly attack through an alligator in South Carolina for decades, native officers told ABC News.
