Jul. 10, 2024 02:53 AM EDT
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Rangers have shot dead a 4.2-meter (14-foot) crocodile in northern Australia after it killed a 12-year-old girl while she was swimming with her family last week, police said Wednesday.
The girl’s death was the first fatal crocodile attack in the...
Jul. 05, 2024 04:15 AM EDT
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Crocodile numbers in Australia's Northern Territory must be either maintained or reduced and cannot be allowed to outstrip the human population, the territory's leader said after a 12-year-old girl was killed while swimming.
The crocodile population...
Jul. 04, 2024 06:10 AM EDT
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Police on Thursday found the remains of a 12-year-old girl, two days after she was snatched by a crocodile while swimming in a creek in remote northern Australia.
The remains were found in the river system near where the girl vanished at the Indigenous...