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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Queensland inquiry hears fatal crocodile attack likely first involving two of the reptiles

A crocodile sunbathing on a log
A coroner’s investigation has been told Andrew Heard was preyed upon by two crocodiles on Hinchinbrook, off Queensland’s Cassowary Coast. Photograph: Joanne Weston/Alamy

The death of a fisher taken from a boat and eaten by two crocodiles in northern Australia marks the first time a human has been preyed upon by more than one of the reptiles, the Queensland environment department believes.

On 11 February 2021 experienced sailor and angler Andrew Heard and his partner Erica Lang were moored near a creek on Hinchinbrook, a large and uninhabited island just off north Queensland’s Cassowary Coast. It was a trip the pair had made every year for a decade.

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