A 12-year-old girl was injured by a more than 12-foot-long alligator at a lake in North Carolina on Friday, June 13. Other children were also in the water, but are all safe. “She had a few stitches and, other than that, she’s doing great,” authorities said. Officials confirmed that this was the first such incident in the area’s history. On that day, multiple children were playing in Lake Waccamaw, a large freshwater lake, when one of them suddenly screamed, “Something bit me!” As the children rushed out of the four-foot-deep water, an alligator emerged from the same spot, according to...
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