Man attacked by alligator in Hurricane Ida's floodwaters
A Louisiana sheriff says a man was attacked by a large alligator while walking through floodwaters from Hurricane Ida and is now missing
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Your support makes all the difference.A man was attacked by a large alligator while walking through floodwaters from Hurricane Ida and is now missing, a Louisiana sheriff said.
The 71-year-old man’s wife told sheriff’s deputies that she heard a commotion around noon on Monday, then walked outside to see the gator attacking her husband in the New Orleans suburb of Slidell, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
“Once the attacked stopped, she pulled her husband out of the floodwaters, and returned inside to gather first aid supplies,” the sheriff’s office said.
When the man’s wife realized how severely her husband had been injured, she got into her canoe and went to higher ground — about a mile away — to get help. But when she returned, her husband was no longer lying on the steps of their home, the sheriff’s office said.
The sheriff’s office said it used high-water vehicles and boats in an attempt to find the man, “but all attempts have been futile."
The man wasn't identified by the sheriff's office, and few other details were immediately available Tuesday.
The sheriff’s office is warning residents to be on guard while walking in flooded areas as wildlife have been displaced during Ida and might have moved closer to neighborhoods.