Florida woman's hand almost bitten off by alligator

Kimberly Ann Sexton, 49, was airlifted to a local hospital following the incident on Friday evening and underwent immediate surgery, according to a report by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “She sustained a severe hand injury that was almost a full amputation of the right hand in the wrist,” Broward Sheriff and Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles told the Sun-Sentinel newspaper. A spokeswoman for North Broward Medical Center, where Sexton was taken, said that she was listed in stable condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit.