Coroner says crocodile killed girl
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April 17, 2010, Saturday
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AN 11-year-old girl who was pulled underwater while swimming in a Northern Territory creek in Australia last year was killed by a crocodile, the coroner confirmed yesterday.
Briony Goodsell's mangled remains were found a day after she disappeared while cooling off with her sister and friends near Humpty Doo, southeast of Darwin, in March 2009.
Regional Coroner Greg Cavanagh said the investigation into her death had heard evidence that a saltwater crocodile about 3 meters long took the girl, though the reptile was not found.
"(It) traveled into the smaller feeder creek from the Adelaide River flood plain during a period of heavy rain and high water level," he said in his findings.
The children who had been swimming with the girl told police they saw the tail of a crocodile splash the surface of the water near where she disappeared moments earlier.
Goodsell was one of four people killed by crocodiles in seven months from 2008 to early 2009 in Australia.
Briony Goodsell's mangled remains were found a day after she disappeared while cooling off with her sister and friends near Humpty Doo, southeast of Darwin, in March 2009.
Regional Coroner Greg Cavanagh said the investigation into her death had heard evidence that a saltwater crocodile about 3 meters long took the girl, though the reptile was not found.
"(It) traveled into the smaller feeder creek from the Adelaide River flood plain during a period of heavy rain and high water level," he said in his findings.
The children who had been swimming with the girl told police they saw the tail of a crocodile splash the surface of the water near where she disappeared moments earlier.
Goodsell was one of four people killed by crocodiles in seven months from 2008 to early 2009 in Australia.
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