Croc Hunter pulled sting ray barb from his chest

Dramatic videotape of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin’s last moments shows him pulling from his chest the poisonous stingray barb that killed him, officials said today, as tributes poured in for the beloved naturalist famed for getting dangerously close to deadly beasts.

Police said there were no suspicious circumstances in the death of Irwin, who was stabbed in the chest yesterday while snorkelling with a stingray while filming a television program on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and no evidence he provoked the animal.