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steve2470

(37,456 posts)
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 12:32 PM Sep 2017

Financial Times journalist is killed in crocodile attack on surfing vacation in Sri Lanka

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/15/financial-times-journalist-is-killed-in-crocodile-attack-on-surfing-vacation-in-sri-lanka/?undefined=&utm_term=.005d56438fed&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1


https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

Paul McClean, a 24-year-old British journalist for the Financial Times, died following a crocodile attack Thursday afternoon while he was vacationing with friends in Sri Lanka, according to local authorities.

McClean, along with a group of seven friends, had been surfing Thursday on a beach known as Elephant Rock, a popular tourist destination between Arugam Bay and the city of Panama in southeast Sri Lanka. Afterward, McClean needed to relieve himself and ventured alone into a nearby area, overgrown with vegetation, according to Fawas Lafeer, the owner of Safa Surf School, which is located about a mile up the coast.

McClean then dipped his hands into a nearby lagoon to wash up, Lafeer told The Washington Post, citing local witnesses.

Lafeer, who was about 10 feet away at the time, suddenly heard a fisherman screaming. He ran to the muddy lagoon, where a fisherman told him a crocodile had dragged a tourist — McClean — underwater. For a fleeting moment, Lafeer saw an arm reaching out of the water, he told The Post.


So very sad, so young.
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