Australian police have ended a search for a 62-year old man who went missing in a popular national park. Allegedly his remains were found inside a large 4.7-meter saltwater crocodile that park rangers shot in Kakadu National Park on Saturday, Northern Territory Police Sergeant Andrew Hocking told AFP.
Police were told the man, whose name has not been released, was fishing on a boat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law when the crocodile snatched him.
On that day, rangers shot another crocodile about 1.5 kilometers from the spot where the man was attacked, Hocking said.
The remains have not yet been formally identified. An investigation is underway.
The attack might hit the park's safety reputation: earlier in January, a 12-year-old boy was killed and his friend mauled by a crocodile as they swam in a water hole in the park.
Crocodile population has been on the rise across Australia since 1971 when the country adopted a law protecting the species. Most of them live in the tropical Northern Territory, where Kakadu Park is located.
The NT News newspaper reported that the family is understood to be from the NT capital, Darwin.
"I believe the son was involved in the initial search for his father, which is obviously traumatising and anyone's heart would go out to the family in that sort of incident," Harrison said.
In January, a 12-year-old boy died after being attacked by a crocodile in the national park.
Human remains were found near where the boy had been swimming with friends in a billabong west of Jabiru.
A 15-year-old boy was bitten by the crocodile in the same attack but fought his way free.
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