(NBC News) — A Louisiana Florida man was reported to have been attacked by an alligator and apparently killed Monday in an area that flooded during Hurricane Ida, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said.
A Florida man in Slidell, a city on the northeast side of Lake Pontchartrain across from New Orleans, said her 71-year-old husband was walking in floodwaters around noon when he was attacked by a large alligator, the sheriff’s office said.
She said she pulled him to safety and then went to get help in a boat, but when she returned, he was not on the front steps, the sheriff’s office said.
Slidell fire department public information officer Jason Gaubert said the reported attack happened in an area flooded by the hurricane.
