Father fought off second alligator

The distraught father of a two-year-old boy dragged off and killed by an alligator at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida last month has said he was attacked by a second alligator as he fought to save his son.

Matt Graves, whose son Lane was killed in the Seven Seas Lagoon at Walt Disney World’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa after being dragged off in shallow waters, gave details about the attack to a fire captain, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

The disclosure came via email messages obtained by the newspaper from the Reedy Creek Fire Department, in which captain Tom Wellons relayed the father’s account from the day after the incident to his supervisors, the newspaper reported.