Body of British publisher killed by crocodile found in Sri Lanka
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COLOMBO: Sri Lankan military on Friday found a physique of a 24-year-old British journalist, Paul McClean, who is suspected to have been killed by a crocodile.
Divers found McClean’s remains in a sand of a firth in a coastal encampment of Panama, 360 kilometres easterly of a collateral Colombo by road, a military orator said.
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“There were 6 or 7 wounds on his right leg,” a military central told AFP by telephone. “The physique was stranded in sand during about a same place where he was seen final by some others who were with him.”
A crocodile is believed to have dragged McClean divided on Thursday afternoon, a officer said, though a autopsy hearing after on Friday would rigourously settle a means of death.
British media reports pronounced McClean, who worked for a Financial Times, was holidaying in Sri Lanka with friends. He was on a beach and had wandered divided to find a toilet when he stumbled into an area famous to be filthy with crocodiles.
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Other holidaymakers in a area alerted military after McClean left and a hunt was mounted with a assistance of navy divers.
Crocodile attacks are singular in Sri Lanka. However, progressing this month, wildlife authorities reported that a crocodile had severely harmed a furious elephant in a south of a island. During monsoon floods in May, authorities warned people in flooded areas to beware of wandering crocodiles.
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