A French fisherman was bloodied but back on his fishing boat hours after he escaped from the jaws of a young saltwater crocodile which attacked him while swimming along a remote stretch of Australia’s northern coast.

A French fisherman has survived an attack by a crocodile off the coast of northern Australia.

Hopes were fading for a nine-year-old boy taken by a 13ft crocodile in northern Australia, which police said was being fed by the local community.

A MAN living in a remote town in northern Australia was gored to death by a wild buffalo before being burnt in a bushfire, police said.