Irwin died 'doing what he loved best', says producer

Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality known as The Crocodile Hunter, “died doing what he loved best”, his friend and producer said today.

Australia Zoo, the wildlife park Irwin ran in north-eastern Queensland state, issued a statement confirming he was killed today “by a stingray barb to his heart” while filming a sequence for a new television series on the Great Barrier Reef.