Crocodile victim found
NZPA-AAP Brisbane Fishermen in the Gulf of Carpentaria believe they have found the body of a woman thought to have been taken by a big crocodile on Tuesday. A processing manager aboard a fishing trawler, Mr Des Moretto, said the woman’s body was found yesterday morning in the Staaten River, 125 kilometres north Qf Karumba.
Fishermen were trying yesterday to recover the body of a 5m crocodile believed to be the reptile
which took Catherine Anne McQuarrie, aged 31, of Murwillumbah, northern New South Wales. The crocodile was shot yesterday afternoon. A police spokesman said the crocodile sank after it was shot. “Once they recover it they will open it up and check the contents of its stomach for human remains to determine if it was the same crocodile,’’ the spokesman said. The reptile was trapped in a . creek as fishermen
netted the riverbanks for the woman’s body. The woman was a deckhand on a barramundi fishing boat and was attacked when she was swimming back to her vessel after her dinghy’s outboard motor had broken down. It is the second crocodile attack in Queensland recently. Less than. tw,o months ago Beryl . Wruck,; aged'43, was killed by a crocodile near Daintree, north of, Cairns,, *, „ f
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Press, 13 February 1986, Page 1
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