Alligator drags 2-year-old boy into lagoon at Disney World

A two-year-old boy is missing after he was reportedly dragged into a lagoon by an alligator at a Disney World resort in Orlando, despite his fath er'sfrantic attempts to wrestle his son from the reptile's jaws.

The boy was said to have been dragged into the Seven Seas Lagoon near the upmarket Grand Floridian Resort & Spa around 9.20pm on Tuesday as he paddled in a foot of water with his parents and four-year-old sister despite ‘no swimming’ signs being posted nearby.

Terrifying moment when homeless man was nearly killed by unleashed pit bull

A homeless man identified only as Bemo has barely escaped death by an unleashed pit bull in Brooklyn and has only been saved when a nearby corrections officer stopped the attack by shooting the dog in the head. The pit bull which is reportedly owned by another homeless man had sunk his teeth into his victim and would not let go until being shot by corrections officer, Anthony Davis, who works at the Brooklyn House of Detention. According to reports, even after being fatally shot, it took a while before the dog released its victim.