Rangers shoot killer croc

Police in Australia said today they had killed a crocodile believed to have eaten a 22-year-old man and were and planning to cut the animal open to search for his remains.

Rangers shot the 12.5ft saltwater crocodile yesterday near where Brett Mann was snatched from a river on December 21. Searchers had spent the past week on dirt bikes and in helicopters sweeping the area for his body and the crocodile that took him. Torrential rain and floodwaters stalled the search for four days.