Journalist for prestigious newspaper gets eaten by crocodile while washing hands
A journalist for Financial Times was reportedly eaten by a crocodile
after he strayed away from his friends to wash his hands at a nearby
lagoon in Sri Lanka.
Police said the alleged attack occurred Thursday afternoon after Paul
McClean, 25, separated from friends he was vacationing with and walked
some distance in the lagoon.
McClean, who graduated from Oxford University with an honors degree in
French, was reportedly seen frantically "waving his hands in the air"
before being dragged underwater at a lagoon known as Crocodile Rock, The
Sun reported.
His body was recovered the morning after he went missing in the Panama
lagoon.
The Financial Times, where McClean had been employed since 2015, said on
its website that officials have also told McClean's friends the young
reporter was likely attacked by a crocodile.
The cause of death, however, has yet to be established and a post-mortem
investigation is slated to be conducted Friday.
