Florida authorities have identified a woman who is in critical condition at a Florida trauma center after an alligator nearly bit off her hand Friday in the Everglades, officials said.
Kimberly Anne Sexton, 49, of St. Cloud in central Florida, was bit after she attempted to retrieve an empty can of Mountain Dew soda that had rolled off a dock and into the water at Willard's Fish Camp, west of Fort Lauderdale in Broward County, according to the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Broward County Sheriff's Department..
"The hand was still attached though it was a very severe, almost full amputation of the hand," Jachles said, adding that the woman was stabilized after bleeding severely and losing consciousness.
Sexton was taken into immediate surgery upon arrival into the hospital, the commission said.
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