{"id":10566,"date":"2024-07-04T05:14:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2024-07-04T05:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:14:28","slug":"child-missing-reportedly-attacked-by-crocodile-in-remote-northern-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10566","title":{"rendered":"Child missing, reportedly attacked by crocodile, in remote Northern Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are searching for a 12-year-old child who was reportedly attacked by a crocodile near the remote Northern Territory community of Palumpa, 360 kilometres south-west of Darwin.<\/p>\n

“Around 5:30pm last night, police received reports of a missing 12-year-old child who was last seen swimming at Mango Creek,” NT Police said.<\/p>\n

“Initial reports stated the child had been attacked by a crocodile.<\/p>\n

“Community members and Peppimenarti Police attended the scene and began searching for the child, who has yet to be located.”<\/p>\n

Northern Territory Police Minister Brent Potter said it was a horrible situation for the community and the child’s family.<\/p>\n

“It’s a tragic incident for any parent or family member to lose a young child, and especially in the circumstances like that taken by a crocodile,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I know the search and rescue team are currently out there with members from the Wadeye police station and they’ll continue to do that to find that croc.<\/p>\n

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Red pin shows the location of Palumpa \/ Nganmarriyanga, a remote Northern Territory community.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Google Maps<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“They’ve been authorised to remove that crocodile from the area and recover the missing child.<\/p>\n

“We live in a place where crocodiles occupy our water places. It is a tragic event.<\/p>\n

“We’ll wait to see what the additional details come back once search and rescue have completed their job.”<\/p>\n

NT Police has launched a land and water search, which could expand to an aerial search during the day, police said.<\/p>\n

“Local officers are on scene and our thoughts are with the family and the community,” NT Police Senior Sergeant Erica Gibson said.<\/p>\n

“Officers are currently searching a large section of the creek via boat and we thank the community for their ongoing assistance .”<\/p>\n

Officers from the nearby community of Wadeye are also assisting search efforts, police said.<\/p>\n

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Police are searching for a 12-year-old child who was reportedly attacked by a crocodile near the remote Northern Territory community of Palumpa, 360 kilometres south-west of Darwin. “Around 5:30pm last night, police received reports of a missing 12-year-old child who was last seen swimming at Mango Creek,” NT Police said. “Initial reports stated the child […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10568,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions\/10568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}