Eight-year-old boy drowns in croc attack

Bomba personnel searching for the victim in the swamp where he was attacked by the crocodile.

MIRI: An eight-year-old boy drowned during an attack by a crocodile at a swamp near here Saturday (March 24).

In the 6.45pm incident, the victim Mohd Fairus Mohd Dais was fishing near the banks of a swamp at the Tudan 5 squatter resettlement scheme, about 20km north of Miri.