ALLIGATOR ATTACK 2-YEAR OLD BOY IN A LAGOON AT WALT DISNEY NEAR ORLANDO

An alligator snatched a 2-year-old boy Tuesday night in a lagoon at a Walt Disney hotel near Orlando as his father desperately tried to save him.The 2-year-old boy who was grabbed Tuesday night by an alligator is believed dead, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said Wednesday, noting it has been 15 hours since the attack. 

        

Rescue officials are "working on recovering the body" of the boy, Demings said.
                                         

"The sad reality of it is it's been several hours, and we're not likely going to recover a live body," Demings continued.

He said there is no record of similar incidents in this particular area.

The family of four -- the boy, his parents and his 4-year-old sister -- was on vacation from Nebraska, Demings said. They arrived Sunday.

The parents watched as the alligator attacked the toddler at the Seven Seas Lagoon. The lagoon is connected to a series of canals that feed into large bodies of water.

"The father actually went into the water to wrestle his son from the grips of the alligator," he said. The father suffered minor scratches on his hand but was unsuccessful in getting his son back.