Late-night swimmer snatched by crocodile

A woman struggled in vain to drag her friend from a crocodile’s jaws during a late-night swim off an Australian beach.

They were in waist-deep water at Thornton Beach, in the World Heritage-listed Daintree National Park, in Queensland state, when the woman, 46, was taken by the crocodile at 10:30pm local time on Sunday.

Police senior constable Russell Parker said: “Her 47-year-old friend tried to grab her and drag her to safety, but she just wasn’t able to do that.”