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A man has been killed by a crocodile at Cahill’s Crossing in Kakadu national park. | A man has been killed by a crocodile at Cahill’s Crossing in Kakadu national park. |
Northern Territory police said the 47-year-old man was wading across the East Alligator river with two women about 4pm local time on Thursday when he was taken by a 3.5m saltwater crocodile. The two women made it across the river. | |
He is believed to be from the nearby Arnhem Land community of Gunbalanya. | |
“We put some boats in the water and located the 47-year-old male two kilometres downstream,’ Superintendent Bob Harrison told Sky News. | |
Cahill’s Crossing, where the national park meets Arnhem Land, is notorious for the number of crocodiles in the area and is not a pedestrian causeway. Signs warn people to stay out of the water. On Thursday, it was open only to high-clearance four-wheel drives, but between September and May it is often impassable. | |
Last month, seven people were rescued after spending two hours in the water when their four-wheel-drive was washed off the crossing. | |
In October, rangers and traditional owners called for greater safety measures at the crossing after a woman was filmed shooing away a four-metre crocodile with her thong. | |
In December 2015, onlookers were reportedly horrified as a man waded across the river and back again to retrieve a tow rope and rescue his car. | |
In 1897, a 40-year-old fisherman, Kerry McLoughlin, was attacked and killed by a crocodile while standing in ankle deep water. |