North Carolina officials euthanized a 12-foot alligator after it injured a young girl swimming in Lake Waccamaw, noting the unusual but non-predatory nature of the rare encounter.

North Carolina officials euthanized a 12-foot alligator after it injured a young girl swimming in Lake Waccamaw, noting the unusual but non-predatory nature of the rare encounter.

Back in May, the alligator knocked over the married couple's canoe on Tiger Creek near Lake Kissimmee and killed Cynthia Diekema, age 61.

A 12-year-old girl in Southeastern, North Carolina was seriously injured after a scary encounter with an alligator while swimming in a lake.

Submerged alligator works its way into group of swimming children, resulting in one being seriously injured in North Carolina’s Lake Waccamaw, police say.