According to authorities, the 17-year-old youngster had a "minor laceration to his leg" and was treated at a nearby clinic.cLocal government minister Chansey Paech told ABC News that people should be "croc wise" since crocodiles had been relocated from flooded waterways due to heavy rain. The Australian Defence Force is in the area assisting with evacuations. Mr Paech said 700 people had been evacuated out of Kalkarindji, around 770 kilometers (478 miles) south of Darwin, after the Victoria River breached its banks.
"Defence Australia has given us three big planes - two C130s and one C27 - and they're working on flying evacuees to Katherine," he tweeted, referring to Katherine, a town in the Northern Territory. According to a spokesman for Mr Paech, significant floods increased the risk of crocodiles. "They're everywhere when the river bursts its banks," she told the BBC. According to officials, evacuees will be accommodated at a former Covid quarantine facility in Howard Springs, and children will be able to attend local schools. As the upper Victoria River neared severe flood levels, the territory declared an emergency in four rural locations this week. Roads to a handful of rural communities were closed, according to Emergency Controller Daniel Bacon, who warned residents to stay away.
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"We continue to remind everyone that if it's flooded; forget it." The Victoria River had reached a height of 14m in Kalkarindji, but was currently falling, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. The body of an Australian man who went missing while fishing with pals has been discovered inside a crocodile. Kevin Darmody, 65, was last seen on Saturday at Kennedy's Bend, a well-known saltwater crocodile habitat in a rural area of northern Queensland. After a two-day hunt, authorities euthanized two huge crocodiles and discovered human body parts. Mr Darmody's "tragic ending" was described by police. A formal identification procedure will be followed. Mr Darmody was a well-known member of the Cape York community and an excellent fisherman. The two crocodiles, measuring 4.1m (13.4 ft) and 2.8m (9.2 ft), were shot dead on Monday approximately 1.5 km (0.9 miles) from where they were last seen.
Although only one of the reptiles contained human remains, wildlife officers suspect both were involved in the tragedy. The fisherman who were with Mr Darmody at the time did not witness the attack but did hear him yell, followed by a big splash.
"I dashed down... "But there was no trace of him, only his thongs [flip-flops] on the bank and nothing else," his buddy John Peiti told the Cape York Weekly. Crocodiles are plentiful in Australia's tropical north, but attacks are uncommon. Mr Darmody's death is Queensland's 13th fatal attack since records began in 1985. In 2021, a fisherman was murdered by a crocodile in Queensland's Hinchinbrook Island, and there were also fatal attacks in the state's far north in 2017 and 2016. Grandmother allegedly attacked by a crocodile A crocodile captures a woman night swimmer. Queensland's crocodile population has increased from 5,000 animals in 1974 to about 30,000 now, thanks to a hunting prohibition. According to a 2019 report, each kilometer of river surveyed contained an average of 1.7 adult crocs.
"Problem crocodiles" are evacuated from regions where they endanger public safety and, in rare cases, euthanized under Queensland's management program. These figures are dwarfed by the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia, which has the world's greatest wild crocodile population of 100,000 reptiles. Despite public awareness efforts encouraging people to be "crocwise" around waterways, there have been 1-2 deaths from crocodile attacks in the Territory each year since 2005, however none have happened since 2018. Tom Housden contributed to this story.
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