Alligator kills diver.A MAN watched in agony as his brother was killed by a 15-foot alligator alligator, large aquatic reptile of the genus Alligator, in the same order as the crocodile. There are two species—a large type found in the S United States and a small type found in E China. Alligators differ from crocodiles in several ways. . Walterney Pires saw the beast with its jaws round the neck of his brother Jose, 37. He said: "I didn't know what to do, shoot the alligator or not, because I was afraid of wounding my brother". Jose, a police officer, had gone skin diving skin diving, act of swimming freely underwater. It is done with the aid of a face mask, swimming fins for the feet, and either a snorkel breathing tube or scuba [acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus] gear. with a group in a tributary of the Amazon River Amazon River Portuguese Rio Amazonas River, northern South America. It is the largest river in the world in volume and area of drainage basin; only the Nile River of eastern and northeastern Africa exceeds it in length. in Brazil about 1,800 miles north-west of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r .
They saw small alligators along the river but noticed the large one only after bubbles and blood rose up from where Jose was diving. |
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