Body of boy recovered after dragged away by alligator at Disney resort in Florida
Diana Williams reporting live (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Updated 19 mins ago
BAY LAKE, Florida -- Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings says searchers have recovered the body of a 2-year-old Nebraska boy snatched by an alligator at Walt Disney World in Florida.
The boy was attacked Tuesday night as he waded in shallow water at the edge of the Seven Seas Lagoon at Disney's Grand Floridian resort.
Demings identified the boy as Lane Graves of Elkhorn, Nebraska. The boy's body was underwater and found by divers. Officials said the boy's body was fully intact.
Wildlife officials said they have captured five different alligators that were in the area, and they're going to determine if one of them dragged the child.
The search team grew to 50 people Wednesday as trappers and divers searched Disney's network of man-made canals, ponds and lakes. At least five other alligators were caught and cut open before they found the killer.
Law enforcement officials search the Seven Seas Lagoon outside the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
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