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The Jalisco State Civil Protection and Fire Department Unit said in aseries of social media statementsTuesday that it worked in collaboration with the Municipal Coordination of Civil Protection and Firefighters in the Mexican locale to provide aid to the two individuals.
One of the tourists, per the organization, was swimming in the water at night when the crocodile attack took place. As he was being attacked, the Jalisco State Civil Protection and Fire Department Unit said his companion went into the water to help.
“The man who was swimming presented injuries to both lower extremities, right upper extremity, chest and abdomen,” the organizationtweetedTuesday. “His companion [was] injured in the right upper extremity and in the right inguinal area.”
The Jalisco State Civil Protection and Fire Department Unit added that the two Americans are originally from Colorado. Their names have not been released.
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Kiana Hummel and a friend went for a late-night swim at a beach when a large crocodile bit her right leg and dragged her into the water,Mexico News Dailypreviously reported.
“I’m pretty grateful that people were there to help me… I don’t think I would have gotten out [without them],” Hummel later shared in a statement from her hospital bed, perMexico News Daily.
“It didn’t want to give up. It went for my right leg and pulled me under the water and then went for my left leg and pulled me back into the water again,” she added.
source: people.com
