In Florida alligator swimming in the river bitten homeless

A homeless man was taken to the city hospital Melborn (Florida, USA) with a torn shoulder injuries after he was bitten by an alligator.

According to police, 55-year-old man was attacked when bathed in the water under the overpass. Police Chief Melborna Dan Lynch said that alligator crept up and grabbed the man, passes WFTV9. It happened in the morning of Monday, 19 September.

Edition Click Orlando said that we are talking about a very large animal. According to eyewitnesses, the alligator length is not less than two and a half meters.

The cries of the homeless have heard the police who have passed training nearby. "Officers rushed to the cries and found the man on the river bank with terrible wounds on his shoulder," - says Lynch.

The victim was taken to the Regional Medical Center Holmes. Doctors claim that he would survive.

Journalists were able to talk with one of the witnesses to the attack.

"I was standing there on the bridge, and casually looked down I saw a head, it was like this is great." - Said Mark Smith, Brown, with his hands, which was the head of a large reptile.

Staff Service ryboohrane and Wildlife Conservation Florida scour the surrounding streams, to establish the whereabouts of an alligator. Hunting it will continue as long as the predator is found.

"Alligator must be somewhere nearby They are very attached to their territory is our hope that it stays in place and we will be able to find it..," - Said the expert conservationists Chad Weber.

According to him, after the capture of an alligator mouth will be taken DNA samples, which will determine whether it is the individual that attacked the man.

This year in Florida there have been several similar incidents. In one case, a boy whose alligator utyanul under water on the beach at Disney World, died. Locals demand the authorities to install warning signs in the habitat of alligators.

At the same time, Wesh citing experts said that in the flowering state any body of water is potentially dangerous. No cause for alarm, says the publication, it is sufficient to be aware of.