Australian officials have discovered “items of relevance” inside a large crocodile they shot dead as they search for a fisherman who is feared to have been killed by one of the animals.
Wildlife officers shot dead two crocodiles that they spotted upstream of where Kevin Darmody, 65, went missing on Saturday in Rinyirru (Lakefield) National Park in tropical northern Queensland. They intend to carry out thorough post mortem examinations of the contents of the reptiles’ stomachs.
Mark Henderson, an inspector from Queensland Police, said: “The indications are that there have been some items of relevance located within that crocodile.”
Darmody, who ran a pub in the remote Cape York region of Queensland, was fishing on the banks of the Kennedy River when fishermen nearby heard a yell, then splashes and a commotion. He vanished, leaving on the river bank just a pair of jandals he had been wearing.