Australian
police are searching for a nine-year-old boy who is believed to have been
attacked by a crocodile and dragged out to sea.
The
boy was swimming with a group of people at Port Bradshaw, in the Northern
Territory, when he was attacked.
"Initial
reports suggest adults within in the group tried to save the boy by spearing
the animal, but the crocodile dragged the child out to deeper water,"
police Superintendent Michael White said in a statement.
Supt
White said the incident highlighted the dangers of swimming in waterways in
northern Australia.
Two
weeks ago a seven-year-old girl was feared killed by a crocodile at a waterhole
about 340km (210 miles) east of the city of Darwin, the capital of the Northern
Territory.
Police
searching the waterhole shot dead a three-metre (10ft) crocodile, and an
examination of the animal revealed what were believed to be human remains in
its stomach.
Saltwater
crocodiles, which can be up to seven metres (23ft) long and weigh more than a
ton, are a common feature of Australia's tropical north.
They
have been protected since the 1970s and their numbers have increased steadily
since.
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