The discovery has left some locals nervous and an investigation is now under way.
0:42An alligator was spotted with human remains in its mouth by a passer-by in Florida.
The 13-foot reptile was spotted by Jamarcus Bullard in a canal in Largo, about 20 miles west of Tampa."I threw a rock at the gator just to see if it was really a gator and like it pulled the body, like it was holding on to the lower part of the torso, and pulled it under the water," he told a TV affiliate of NBC News, Sky News' US partner network.Bullard said he started recording on his phone and contacted the authorities.
The 13-foot, 8.5-inch male alligator was removed from the water and was"humanely killed," the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said in a statement, adding that the remains of an adult had also been recovered.
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