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Associated Press

A 68-year-old woman was in a stable condition in an Australian hospital after a crocodile leaped from a creek and bit off her arm, authorities said.
The woman was attacked Wednesday afternoon as she rested during a shopping trip on a creek bank on the edge of the town of Wyndham in Western Australia state, a Department of Parks and Wildlife officer Peter Carstairs said on Thursday.
“The victim was attacked by a crocodile as it launched 2 meters out of the water and grabbed her from behind,” Carstairs said.
Wynyard local Paul Cavanagh said his nephew and son-in-law picked the injured woman up from the side of a road and drove her to Wyndham District Hospital after seeing her walking with her right arm missing below the elbow.
She was flown east to the larger Royal Darwin Hospital late Wednesday for further treatment, Western Australia Country Health Service spokesman Peter Cogan said.
She had surgery for the loss of the lower half of her right forearm and had been treated for bite marks to her left thigh, ambulance service spokesman Malcolm Johnston-Leek said on Thursday.
Her condition was stable, hospital spokesman Kirsty Reid said.
Wildlife rangers on Thursday captured and killed the 2.2-metre crocodile responsible for the attack, Carstairs said.
Crocodile numbers have boomed across Australia’s northern tropics since they became a protected species under federal law in 1971, and they are an increasing threat to humans. Australia’s saltwater crocodile is the largest species of reptile in the world, growing up to 6 metres long and weighing more than a tonne.
They are capable of leaping vertically out of the water almost the full length of their body, propelled by their muscular tails.


Crocodile leaps 2 metres out of Australian creek and bites off woman’s arm

(FILES) This file picture taken on March 3, 2014 shows Rex, a 700-kilogram saltwater crocodile, jumping out of the pond to eat a rabbit at the Wildlife Sydney Zoo in Sydney. Crocodile safaris for big game hunters could be underway in Australia's tropical north by the end of the year, providing much needed revenue to Aboriginal communities, a government minister said on June 23, 2015. AFP PHOTO / FILES /Saeed KHAN

Rex, a 700-kilogram saltwater crocodile, jumps out of its pond to eat a rabbit at the Wildlife Sydney Zoo. Photo: AFP

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