Police have found the remains of a 12-year-old girl believed to have been taken by a crocodile in remote Palumpa in the Northern Territory.
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00:00Just a few kilometres from where I'm standing is Mango Creek, where the remains of a 12-year-old
00:07girl have been discovered less than two days after she was first reported missing.
00:13Mango Creek is located just a few kilometres outside of the remote community of Palumpa.
00:18We understand the girl was enjoying a late afternoon swim around 5.30 on Tuesday afternoon
00:24when she was attacked by what witnesses described to police as a black crocodile.
00:29That concerning information sparked a very swift response with both police and members
00:34of Parks and Wildlife spending more than 36 painstaking hours combing through the river
00:40banks by foot and searching through dense pandanus by boat.
00:44The child's t-shirt was located last night upstream with her body discovered close by
00:50earlier this morning.
00:52Based on her traumatic injuries, police have today confirmed that a crocodile was almost
00:57certainly involved in that child's death.
01:00This is obviously an extremely distressing set of circumstances both for the community,
01:05the child's family and of course for the first responders who made that gruesome discovery.
01:10There is nothing nice to be said.
01:12It was an extremely difficult, essentially 36 hours, difficult for the first responders
01:20involved in the search.
01:23However for the family it is the most devastating outcome.
01:27The crocodile responsible for this attack is yet to be located although traps have been
01:31set in Mango Creek and we're told authorities will continue to monitor the waterways over
01:37the coming days.
01:38This is the first fatal crocodile attack in the Northern Territory since 2018.