{"id":1519005,"date":"2026-06-29T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=917e16ed4a4d4885d346414e64f193c5"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:51:25","slug":"woman-killed-by-alligator-in-florida-river-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519005","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed by alligator in Florida river, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ec8ae1e1e5541a47ce4fbf436a769e4d-1.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>Stock photo of an alligator in the water. (Sushisu\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>A woman was killed by an alligator while swimming in a river in Florida, officials said.<\/p><p>The victim was in the Econlockhatchee River in Seminole County, just north of Orlando, on Sunday when she was attacked, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p><p>She was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries, the FWC said.<\/p><p>Efforts to trap the alligator are ongoing, authorites noted.<\/p><p>The FWC said it \"extends its deepest sympathies to the family and loved ones of the victim during this difficult time.\"<\/p><p>This attack comes two days after a 28-year-old man was killed by a crocodile on a popular beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stock photo of an alligator in the water. (Sushisu\/Getty Images)A woman was killed by an alligator while swimming in a river in Florida, officials said.The victim was in the Econlockhatchee River in Seminole County, just north of Orlando, on Sunday whe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":1519016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ec8ae1e1e5541a47ce4fbf436a769e4d-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-01 09:51:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ec8ae1e1e5541a47ce4fbf436a769e4d-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519018,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519005\/revisions\/1519018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}