AREQUIPA, Peru – Police in the Australian state of Queensland this week suspended the search for a tourist who fell into a crocodile-filled river last Saturday after finding human remains inside a huge reptile.
According to the authorities, cited by the state agency Latin PressThe tourist was fishing in the Annan River in northwestern Australia when he was attacked by a crocodile and disappeared after falling from a bridge into the waters of the tributary.
Witnesses to the incident saw crocodiles in the area, known to locals as Crocodile Bend, and told wildlife officials the attacking animal had a scar on its snout.
A statement from the police agency reveals that the day before They sacrificed a reptile corresponding to the description, it was 4.9 metres long and was caught in a stream near the site of the attack. When they opened it, they found the human remains.
Although a formal identification process is currently underway, the remains are believed to be those of David Hogbin, a 40-year-old man who went missing in New South Wales, the statement said.
Hogbin had visited the site with his wife, three young children and his in-laws for a camping holiday.
Thanks to government protection decreed in 1970, crocodiles abound in northern Australia, where these reptiles can reach more than six meters long and weigh more than a thousand kilos.
In the same year, there were reports of other fatal crocodile attacks in the north of the country, when a 16-year-old boy died in April and a 12-year-old girl in July. Both were attacked while swimming.
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