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A 23-year-old man lost his arm Sunday after an alligator attacked him behind a bar in Florida, authorities said.
The man was attacked behind Banditos Bar, which is located near a pond in Port Charlotte, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a statement to USA TODAY.
Charlotte County Fire and EMS received a call about the attack around 1:40 a.m., spokesman Todd Dunn told USA TODAY.
Responders treated the man with “an above-the-elbow amputation of his upper right extremity,” and airlifted him to Gulf Coast Hospital in Fort Myers by helicopter, Dunn said.
Witness saw man swimming towards shore after attack
Manny Hidalgo, a patron at another bar, told The Daily Sun that he heard the man screaming and went outside looking for him near the pond area.
“He was yelling and swimming toward the shoreline,” Hidalgo told the outlet. “I ran and dragged him up onto the sand. I was scared to get close to the water because it was dark out.”
Officials removed the 10.5-foot alligator from the property and it was “humanely killed,” the wildlife conservation said.
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