Police and locals are searching for the missing boy Police boats are desperately searching for a 12-year-old boy who was reportedly attacked by a crocodile while swimming. Emergency services were called to Mango Creek in Palumpa, a remote town in the Northern Territory of Australia, on Tuesday night. The boy was last seen swimming in the creek at around 5.30pm local time and ‘initial reports stated the child had been attacked by a crocodile’, the force said.
‘Officers are currently searching a large section of the creek via boat and we thank the community for their ongoing assistance.’ The Northern Territory is home to an estimated 100,000 crocodiles – more than anywhere else in the world. But attacks on humans and deaths are rare. Saltwater crocodiles can grow up to 18ft in length and are larger and more aggressive than freshwater crocodiles, which also live in the waterways of the West Daly region.
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