SYDNEY: A crocodile in Australia snatched a woman taking a late-night swim in a national park and is believed to have been killed her, media reported on Monday.

The 46-year-old woman was swimming with a friend late on Sunday in waist-deep water at a beach in Queensland state when she disappeared, police said.

“They felt a nudge, and a large crocodile is alleged to have grabbed one of the ladies and pulled her into the water,” Neil Noble, a supervisor for the Queensland state ambulance service, told reporters.

Police would only say the woman was believed to have been taken by a crocodile. Media reported that the friend struggled to pull the woman back from the crocodile’s jaws.

Police did not identify the woman or give her nationality but said she lives in Australia and has family in New Zealand.

A police spokesman told Reuters a search and rescue operation would continue on Tuesday.”

Published in Dawn, May 31st, 2016

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