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Body found in search for child missing in croc attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c729d8e0r09oBody found in search for child missing in croc attack
8 hours ago
By Katy Watson, BBC Australia Correspondent
Australian police have found human remains while searching for a 12-year-old they believe was the victim of a crocodile attack.
The child was last seen on Tuesday, swimming with family near the remote Aboriginal town of Nganmarriyanga - about a seven-hour drive southwest of Darwin in the Northern Territory (NT).
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The NT is now home to an estimated 100,000 saltwater crocodiles, more than anywhere else in the world. Attacks though are uncommon.
There have been at least two other crocodile attacks in the NT in the past year - a nine-year-old boy was injured in January while swimming in Kakadu National Park, and a farmer escaped a beast's jaws by biting it back in October - but there has not been a fatal attack there since 2018.
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8 hours ago
By Katy Watson, BBC Australia Correspondent
Australian police have found human remains while searching for a 12-year-old they believe was the victim of a crocodile attack.
The child was last seen on Tuesday, swimming with family near the remote Aboriginal town of Nganmarriyanga - about a seven-hour drive southwest of Darwin in the Northern Territory (NT).
[...]
The NT is now home to an estimated 100,000 saltwater crocodiles, more than anywhere else in the world. Attacks though are uncommon.
There have been at least two other crocodile attacks in the NT in the past year - a nine-year-old boy was injured in January while swimming in Kakadu National Park, and a farmer escaped a beast's jaws by biting it back in October - but there has not been a fatal attack there since 2018.
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