Australian man, 60, uses pocket knife to fight off crocodile

  • Date: 10-Nov-2021
  • Source: Kuwait Times
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:Kuwait
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Australian man, 60, uses pocket knife to fight off crocodile

A 60-year-old Australian man escaped the jaws of a large crocodile by stabbing it repeatedly in the head with his pocket knife as it dragged him into a river, local authorities said yesterday. Wildlife officers said the man was “lucky to be alive” after the terrifying attack at a remote riverbank in Australia’s far northern Cape York Peninsula.

“There was a struggle and he fortunately escaped the grip of a four to four-and-a-half-meter crocodile. The odds of doing that are about zero,” said the Queensland state environment department’s Matt Brien. The man had gone fishing on his property last week near Hope Vale, about five hours’ drive from Cairns, and he shooed away a bull from the riverbank so he could take over the spot. Then, the crocodile struck.

‘It lunged at him’

“He described seeing the crocodile seconds before it lunged at him, knocking him over as he was about to cast his fishing rod,” the department said in a statement. He grabbed onto the branch of a mangrove tree in a desperate attempt to stay out of the river as the crocodile’s jaws clamped around his boots. But he quickly lost the tug-of-war and was pulled in.

“The man said that as