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Evening Standard
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Michael Howie

Crocodile that killed girl, 12, swimming in creek in Australia's Northern Territory is shot dead

Rangers in northern Australia have shot dead a 14ft (4.2m) crocodile after it killed a 12-year-old girl while she was swimming with her family last week, police said on Wednesday.

The girl's death was the first fatal crocodile attack in the Northern Territory since 2018 when an indigenous woman was killed while gathering mussels in a river.

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