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NZPA-AAP Brisbane A two-day search for a man-eating crocodile? in Queensland’s Gulf country was called off yesterday. Police, National Parks, and : Wildlife ; Service , officers and. fishermen abandoned their vigil with no sign- of the crocodile believed to have killed a woman trawler hand.> A police spokesman said that although the reptile’s body had not floated to the surface, fishermen were certain it was dead. “They’re quite certain, because of its behaviour when it was shot, that they got a kill shot,” he sald> ' . ; , The police made the eight-hour, 150 km trip back to the fishing town of Karumba, near Normanton, early yesterday morning. . The body of Kate McQuarrie, aged 31, was flown out of Karumba yesterday to Mount Isa for a post-mortem examination on Monday.
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Press, 15 February 1986, Page 10
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128Croc. Search ends Press, 15 February 1986, Page 10
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