Crocodile takes woman during night swim in Australia


(FILES) A file photo taken on October 3, 2012, shows a 700 kilogram crocodile called Rex - who is one of the world’s largest crocodiles - in his enclosure at WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo. A woman is feared dead after being taken by a crocodile following a late night swim with a friend at a beach in northern Australia, police said on May 30, 2016, The women went for a stroll on Thornton Beach in the Cape York region of Queensland state before making a fateful decision to go for a dip in an area known to be infested with crocodiles. / AFP PHOTO / WILLIAM WEST

SYDNEY: A woman is feared dead after being taken by a crocodile following a late night swim with a friend at a beach in northern Australia, police said Monday.

The women, both aged in their 40s, went for a stroll on Thornton Beach Sunday evening in the far north of Queensland state before making a fateful decision to go for a dip in an area known to be infested with crocodiles.

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