Outback crocodile kills German tourist in park

A YOUNG German woman was killed

Outback crocodile kills German tourist in park
Thu, 24 Oct, 2002 - 01:00
a 13-foot crocodile as she swam in a national park in the Australian Outback, police said yesterday.

The 24-year-old tourist, her sister and other members of their tour group were swimming in a waterhole in Kakadu National Park late on Tuesday when the woman disappeared.

Rangers retrieved her body yesterday after harpooning the crocodile about a mile from where the woman was attacked: “The harpooning caused the crocodile to let go of what he had,” Northern Territory Police Commander Max Pope said.

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