Tag: crocodile

Missing 12-year-old girl’s remains found after crocodile attack

The remains of a 12-year-old girl have been found in Australia after an apparent crocodile attack. Police said the girl’s remains were found in a river system near where she went missing two days earlier in the Northern Territory’s Indigenous community of Palumpa, according to The Associated Press. Northern Territory Police said Thursday that the […]

Police find remains of girl snatched by crocodile in Australia

Police have found the remains of a 12-year-old girl, two days after she was snatched by a crocodile while swimming in a creek in remote northern Australia. The remains were found in the river system near where the girl vanished at the Indigenous community of Palumpa, south-west of the Northern Territory capital Darwin, Police senior […]

Police in Australia search for child reportedly attacked by a crocodile

Police in Australia’s Northern Territory were searching Wednesday for a 12-year-old child feared to have been attacked by a crocodile. The child was reported missing on Tuesday evening and was last seen swimming in a creek in Palumpa, a remote community of about 350 people that is seven hours’ drive from the territory’s capital, Darwin. […]

A crocodile was terrorizing this Australian town. So residents cooked and ate it

A remote Australian community has taken revenge on a massive saltwater crocodile by eating the 3.6-meter (11.8-foot) beast blamed for devouring pets and chasing children. On Wednesday, police in the town of Bulla in Australia’s Northern Territory shot the crocodile after deeming it a “significant risk to the community.” The animal was barbecued after it […]

A community in Australia turned a crocodile from a threat into a feast

A saltwater crocodile is no longer threatening a remote Aboriginal community in Australia after being killed and made into a feast for local residents. The almost-12-foot “problem crocodile” had been stalking and lunging at children and adults since moving into the Baines River after floods earlier this year, the Northern Territory Police said in a […]