Texas officials found the remains of a woman's body in the jaws of an alligator.
Houston authorities were searching for a missing woman when they spotted a human body.
The identity of the remains has not yet been determined.
The authorities killed the animal to prevent it from further destroying the remains of the body.
A diver pulled the remains of the alligator out of the water, officials said.
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The police are still waiting for the results of the autopsy and the identification of the remains found, but they believe that it is a woman in her 60s.
The investigation should also determine whether the alligator killed her or just rummaged through her remains.
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A similar incident occurred eight months ago in Largo Canal, Florida.
Officials there killed the four-meter alligator after it was observed holding the lower part of a human body in its jaws.
It was later determined that these were the remains of 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham.
A few months earlier, an 85-year-old woman in Fort Pierce, Florida, was killed by a ten-foot alligator while she was walking her dog.
Attacks by these animals are not rare in Florida, where there are many of them, but in Texas, where the latest incident occurred, they are.
The alligator last attacked a man in Texas in 2015.
A 28-year-old man was killed while swimming in Orange, Texas. writes ABC 13.
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