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A 23-year-old man had his arm amputated after he was attacked by a 10-foot-long alligator outside a Florida bar

Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) said a nuisance alligator trapper removed the 10.5-foot gator (pictured here) from the property. It was then euthanized

Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) said a nuisance alligator trapper removed the 10.5-foot gator (pictured here) from the property. It was then euthanized
A 23-year-old had his arm amputated after he was attacked by a 10.5-foot-long alligator outside a bar in Port Charlotte, Florida, early on Sunday, authorities said.

The victim was bitten while standing outside Banditos Bar, which is situated next to a pond, per The Daily Sun.

The local newspaper reported that emergency services were called to the bar at around 1:42 a.m., citing Charlotte County Fire and EMS spokesperson Todd Dunn.

The victim was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Fort Myers, where his arm was amputated, Dunn said, per the Associated Press.

Snowflake

Raining and snowfall reported in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan for 3 consecutive days - snow accumulated up to a meter deep

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It has been raining in Issyk-Kul for three consecutive days and snowfalls have been reported in remote parts of the region, Turmush reports.

Bakyt Barktabasov, the head of the Issyk-Kul regional department of the Road Department under the Ministry of Transport and Communications, reported that the Bokonbaeva-Tosor-Jyluu-Suu road is currently covered in snow. The Tosor Pass, in particular, has seen snow accumulate up to a meter in certain areas.


Snowflake

Snowfall on the verge of summer in the Sierra Nevada, southern Spain

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In the coming days, significant accumulations of snow are expected in the higher areas of the mountains, after being almost absent in the first part of the spring.


Attention

Three persons killed in two separate gaur (bison) attacks in Kerala, India

Forest officials suspect that the bison that killed

Forest officials suspect that the bison that killed two elderly persons in Kanamala near Erumeli on Friday might have entered the human settlement to avoid poachers.
Three persons were killed on Friday morning in two different incidents of gaur attack at Erumeli and Anchal in Kottayam and Kollam districts respectively, police said. Chackochan (70) and Thomas (71) were killed at Erumely after a gaur, which ventured into a rubber plantation near here, attacked them at around 8 AM.

A senior forest official told PTI that Thomas, who was engaged in rubber tapping inside the plantation which was near the forest area, was attacked first by the gaur.


Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike kills man in Deltona, Florida

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A lightning strike. (File)
A man reportedly lost his life after being struck by lightning while working on a roof in Deltona, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

The incident occurred on Sterling Pointe Drive, prompting response from local authorities.

Co-workers reported to officials that the man was on the roof of a house when a lightning bolt hit him, causing him to fall to the ground below.

The victim, identified as 24-year-old Edvin J. Velasquez Cinto, was taken to a nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead shortly after arriving.

Officials say preliminary investigations indicate that the cause of death was likely a lightning strike, although a formal determination will be made by the medical examiner.


Seismograph

Shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake off New Caledonia

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An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted 288 km E of Vao, New Caledonia at 06:41:58 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 12.143 km, was initially determined to be at 22.9987 degrees south latitude and 170.2882 degrees east longitude.

Attention

More dead dolphins found along the beach in South Jersey

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More dead marine mammals continue to be found along the New Jersey shoreline.

Data suggests it's happening at a much faster rate than in previous years.

It was Sunday morning when Lisa Strano was walking her dog and saw yet another dolphin stranded on the beach in Sea Isle City.

"It was completely motionless. It was clearly dead," said Strano.


Stock Down

The data shows sea levels have been falling for over 100 years in Scandinavia. But the IPCC decides they're rising

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For over 100 years the North European cities of Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki have been steadily rising from the sea with no suggestion from observed evidence that local sea levels will not continue to drop by a few millimetres a year. That is until 2020, when the IPCC's new AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool suddenly promoted substantial sea level rises all round. The discovery appears to baffle Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Oslo. It seems that this tool was not produced to test the validity of a scientific idea. It was instead an attempt to "alarm the user", he said.

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Fire

Mexico: Popocatepetl volcano spews smoke and ash

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Ash and smoke erupted from Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, causing flight delays and cancellations at Benito Juarez International Airport.


Boat

Roads and fields still flooded in western Lapland, the most severe in 55 years

Some locals in Ylitornio turned to tow trucks
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Some locals in Ylitornio turned to tow trucks to rescue their cars from the flood waters.
Numerous roads in and around the towns of Tornio and Ylitornio were still cut off by flood waters on Monday morning, and the water level is expected to remain at peak readings for another couple of days.

While flood waters have begun receding in the upper reaches of the Tornio River valley, more southerly areas continue to be inundated by waters that rose over the weekend.

According to the Finnish Environment Institute, the flooding in the Tornio and Muonio river valleys in the west of Finnish Lapland is the most severe in 55 years.