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PORT MORESBY - An 8-year-old girl was killed by a crocodile after her mother fought in vain to pull her from the animal's jaws.
Police said the girl was making sago with her mother by the river at Samoa village, in Kikori district, on Friday when the 3m crocodile surfaced and struck.
Horrified villagers watched as it grabbed the girl then entered a tug of war with the mother, who tried to pull her free.
She failed and the crocodile dived, then resurfaced with the girl still in its jaws, before disappearing, a police spokesman told PNG's newspaper the National.
Villagers searched the river and retrieved items of the girl's clothing and her body.
-AAP
