Cowboy spent six nights in tree to flee crocs

AN AUSTRALIAN cowboy told yesterday how he spent six nights up a tree for fear of being attacked by a crocodile after accidentally riding his horse into a swamp.

David George, a 53-year-old manager on a cattle ranch near Coen in the tropical north of Queensland state, was the subject of a six-day search after his horse wandered back to his homestead without him, police said.

George told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio he had been dazed from a fall after his horse veered into a crocodile-infested swamp.