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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Alligator attack kills woman on Skidaway Island

Authorities along the Georgia coast say an elderly woman found dead over the weekend was the victim of an alligator attack. 83-year-old Gwen Williams was found Saturday in a pond, about 500 feet from the home she was house-sitting for relatives. The body was missing its left arm, right hand and right foot. An autopsy showed the woman died of blood loss from wounds consistent of an alligator attack. Officials with the state Department of Natural Resources say it’s the eighth known alligator attack in Georgia since 1980--and the first fatal.

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