According to ABC News, Human remains have been found near a creek where an 11-year-old girl was snatched up by a crocodile yesterday.
The girl was attacked in the creek, near the Black Jungle Swamp about 40 kilometres south-east of Darwin, Australia, as she was swimming with her seven-year-old sister and two young friends.
The girl’s boardshorts were found 60 ft downstream from where she disappeared.
DNA testing will be conducted to confirm the identification but no specifics will be given in relation to the injuries or the type of evidence out of respect for the girl’s family.
A Bloomington, Indiana man was taking a relaxing swim in Guatelmala’s El Rosario National Park Lake when a croc decided to chomp down on his head. Apparently he was doing the backstroke, looking up at the trees and the birds, thinking “this is paradise. It doesn’t get any better than this.”
Think again… seconds later a crocodile’s jaws clamped down on his head and pulled him under water.
Waggoner began punching at the head of the croc, trying to find its eyes. Amazingly, he pulled himself free, shot 10-15 feet up to the surface, and began swimming like there was no tomorrow.
Rangers at the scene were extending hooks and rakes to Waggoner, thinking he had a drowning scare. But as he made it back to the dock, a ranger saw that his scalp was peeled back, like a flap.
Fortunately, there was a hospital nearby with a handful of nurses and a Cuban doctor on duty.
Remember that guy that got gashed by a stingray the other day? Well, he’s out of the hospital and doing fine. But apparently doctors investigated the internal injuries with a small camera through his belly button and found that the stingray had missed his spleen by a millimeter, and just missed his diaphragm and kidneys too. Phew!
Beaches near Nelson, New Zealand have reopened after a suspected shark attack has now been confirmed as a run-in with a stingray.
Mike French, 47, had waded about 300 ft off Kina Beach, near Motueka, shortly after 3pm today when he felt something hit him in the side. He was able to get out of the water by himself and a couple at the beach raised the alarm. He was then flown by helicopter to Nelson Hospital.
French said he thought it had been a stingray attack since the gash was straight and not jagged.
Sergeant Rob Crawford, of Motueka police, said an examination of Mr French confirmed that the injury was more likely to have come from a sting-ray than a shark.
Beaches were closed after the attack but have since reopened.
There have been three stingray attacks in recent months. Last month an 11-year-old girl was attacked at Riversdale Beach, on the Wairarapa coast, and a man was attacked at Marfels Beach, near Blenheim. In December, a 48-year-old woman was attacked in Golden Bay.
The Lake Worth maintenance worker whose hand was mangled by an alligator is finally talking. 48-year-old Raymundo Velasquez described the attack from his hospital bed at Delray Medical Center.
“The gator grabbed the bar I was holding along with my fingers,” said Velasquez. “I plunged into the water when it pulled me. Somehow, I managed to get out. That’s when I noticed that my fingers were dangling.”
Doctors managed to save most of his left hand, but Velasquez lost half his index finger and small part of his thumb to a gator in Lake Osbourne on Tuesday.
Despite the injury, Velasquez went right back to work picking-up garbage.
“My method was to finish the job,” said Velasquez. “I don’t like to leave work half done, but I eventually had to stop because I could no longer handle the pain and I was starting to faint because I had lost a lot of blood.”
That Australia heat isn’t just bringing out the sharks. Stingrays are getting in on the action too. Last weekend, while a man’s hand was being mangled by a shark, three other people were taken to the hospital after being stung by stingrays, all within two hours of each other.
At 11.41am, a man in his 40s was stung while swimming at Broulee Beach. The second incident involved a 58-year-old man at Myola near Callala Beach at 11.47am, then a 16-year-old kid was stung at 1.09pm near Huskisson. An ambulance spokesman said all three victims were conscious after being stung, but were in extreme pain. Duh.
The venomous barb of a deadly stingray is still lodged inside a man’s foot five days after he attacked by the ray while he was snorkeling at Sydney’s Coogee Beach.
The victim, David Downie, said it felt like a madman had stabbed him with a screwdriver.
Doctors operated to “flush out” venom from the wound after an ultrasound confirmed part of the tiny barb was still in Mr Downie’s foot. Hope it doesn’t get infected. Ew.
A young (not very bright) man was hospitalized after he jumped on a stingray and got pierced in the arm by its barb.
The man was circling the ray on a jet ski close to shore at Moana, Australia a couple weeks ago, antagonizing it and then decided he’d jump on it’s back!
Bad idea… he ended up with a stingray barb in his arm.
The attack happened in knee-deep water near Riversdale Beach on the Wairarapa coast on Friday. Laura suffered a deep 4-inch-long wound to her arm and smaller cut to her leg. Slipping into shock and bleeding heavily, she was driven to Riversdale where a rescue helicopter flew her to Wairarapa Hospital.
