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TAMPA: A Florida man was hospitalised after an alligator chomped off his hand and forearm as he sought to elude authorities by running into a lake, police said on Thursday.
Jessie Kingsinger, 21, was missing three-quarters of his left arm when he crawled out of the lake in a wooded area behind an apartment complex, said Sergeant Gary Gross, a spokesman for the Lakeland Police Department.
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