2yrs old boy dragged into a lagoon by an Alligator at Walt Disney World

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

The boy was dragged into the Seven Seas Lagoon outside the upscale 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 posted nearby.

 

Sheriffs say there is little hope of finding the boy alive after his father’s unsuccessful struggle with the four- to seven-foot reptile, which also left him with lacerations to his arm.

However, the search for the boy continued Wednesday morning, with about 50 emergency personnel searching the man-made lake by boat and helicopter - aided by sonar technology, dive teams and alligator trappers.  

 

Wildlife officers on Wednesday morning confirmed that they had already captured and killed four alligators in the lagoon while searching for the child, but none of them were the one that grabbed the boy. 

Meanwhile Jeff Williamson, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department said they were determined to find the boy in order to bring comfort to his family.

 

Dive teams were brought in to search the lake at the Disney World resort 

He said they were doing everything possible to find the child and that they still regarded the effort as a 'search and rescue' operation. 

More sheriff's deputies were brought in Wednesday morning to bring 'new eyes' to the search, on the ground and in the air. Alligator trappers and divers were also called in to help.

Earlier, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said the toddler, who was part of a family of five, arrived in Orlando on vacation from Nebraska on Sunday.

The sad reality of it is it's been several hours and we're not likely going to recover a live body.' -Dailymail