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2017-09-15 -Obits-

Crocodile Rock Lagoon Claims Life of Oxford University Graduate

[SUN] A Financial Times journalist was killed by a crocodile while washing his hands at a lagoon in Sri Lanka during a holiday with pals.

Paul McClean, 25, an Oxford University graduate, is understood to have wandered away from his group of friends to find a toilet when he was attacked.

The British victim, from Surrey, was seen "waving his hands in the air" in desperation before being dragged under water at a lagoon called Crocodile Rock near Arugam Bay.

McClean graduated from Oxford with a First Class Honors degree in French in 2015 before joining the Financial Times later that year.

He had covered Brexit and the EU for the newspaper and had recently returned to London after living in Brussels for a couple of months.

The lagoon, known to be crawling with crocodiles, is yards away from popular surf spot Elephant Rock near Arugam Bay on the southeast coast.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-15 05:58|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 And not just any species of crocodile either. An estuarine crocodile. Bad news.

Posted by Unereth Protector of the Bunions4999 2017-09-15 08:15|| 2017-09-15 08:15|| Front Page Top

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