10-year-old girl pries open jaws of alligator to escape attack in Florida Girl bitten by alligator at Moss Park in central Florida No description found
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A 10-year-old girl broke free from an alligator attack by prying its jaws open at Moss Park in central Florida, according to affiliate NBCDFW.com .
The girl was with her family Saturday when she was bitten by an alligator, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission told NBCDFW.com.
Wildlife commission spokesman Chad Weber said the girl was sitting in the water when the 8 feet 9 inch gator bit her knee and calf.
She was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, NBCDFW.com said.
Wildlife officials reportedly trapped the alligator and euthanized it.
You can hear a description of the attack from the 10-year-old girl in the video below:
The 10-year-old girl who pried the jaws of an alligator open to break free explains what happened. https://t.co/3jADf3BAOy pic.twitter.com/NPupJ09SGu
— NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) May 9, 2017
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