Tourist killed by crocodile saved wife's life before his fatal plunge into Australian river, family says
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Dramatic details emerged Tuesday after police said human remains were found inside a large crocodile suspected of killing a tourist in Australia's second fatal attack in about a month.
The latest victim was 40-year-old doctor Dave Hogbin, who fell from a steep bank Saturday into the Annan River south of Cooktown in Queensland state, his family said in a statement. The general practice doctor from Newcastle in New South Wales had been traveling on a camping vacation through Queensland with his wife Jane Hogbin and their three sons aged 2, 5 and 7 years. Cooktown is more than 1,500 miles from Newcastle by road.
Wildlife rangers on Monday euthanized a 16-foot crocodile in a creek 2.5 miles from where Dave Hogbin disappeared. The crocodile had scars on its snout like those witnesses described seeing on a reptile in the vicinity of the disappearance, officials said.
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