Annan River, Cooktown: Search continues for missing fisherman after ‘crocodile attack’ in far north Queensland

Georgina Noack
The Nightly
A push to make crocodile hunting legal in Queensland has been ruled out due to a technicality. (Alan Porritt/AAP PHOTOS)
A push to make crocodile hunting legal in Queensland has been ruled out due to a technicality. (Alan Porritt/AAP PHOTOS) Credit: AAP

A search is underway for a missing man suspected to have been taken by a crocodile in far north Queensland at the weekend.

Emergency services were called to Annan River Bridge in Cooktown on Saturday afternoon after receiving reports a 40-year-old man had been taken by a crocodile.

Queensland Police believe the man, from NSW, was fishing on a riverbank when he fell into the water and failed to resurface.

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In a post to X, formerly Twitter, Queensland Ambulance Service said paramedics and emergency services were searching for “a male patient after a reported crocodile attack near Mulligan highway at 2.07pm”, on Saturday.

Police and wildlife officers and are involved in the search operation, which continues.

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