A Danish backpacker survived a close encounter with a crocodile after “body slamming” the creature while trying to take a photo of it in Western Australia, a report said.
Johnny Bonde, 27, said he was at Lake Kununurra in Australia’s tropical north late on Friday when he spotted a freshwater crocodile in the water and perched on a bank to take photographs of it, The West Australian reported on Saturday.
“Next thing I know I’m sliding down the bank and then I just toppled over and landed straight on top of the croc. He got a pretty good grip on me and shook me around a bit,” Bonde told the newspaper.
“There was just splashing and I could feel a bit of pain in my arm; it wasn’t that bad though, I was more shocked than anything.”
A video obtained by The West Australian showed Bonde holding his bloodied right arm above a sink. He was treated in hospital for deep cuts to his arm, the newspaper said.