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On September 14, 2017, 24-year-old Financial Times journalist Paul McClean was reportedly killed by a crocodile near Arugam Bay in Sri Lanka. McClean stopped by a lagoon known as Crocodile Rock to wash his hands when a crocodile bit him and dragged him into the water. The lagoon is known for its large population of crocodiles.
On 4 April, he had flown to Zaire to meet with president Mobutu Sese Seko and on 6 April flew to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for a one-day regional summit for heads of state convened by Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi. For the return trip, Habyarimana offered to take Saleh Tambwe, Tanzania's Ambassador to Rwanda, with him back to Rwanda.
Crocodylus vulgaris Cuvier, 1802. The Nile crocodile ( Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the eastern, southern, and central regions of the continent, and lives in different types of aquatic ...
c. 1955 (age 68–69) Known for. Allegedly killing up to 200–300 people. Residence. Ruzizi River and Lake Tanganyika, Burundi. Weight. ≥ 2,000 lb (910 kg) (estimated) Gustave is a Burundian large male Nile crocodile in Burundi who is notorious for being a man-eater, rumored to have killed as many as 200–300 people on the banks of the ...
Floods in northern Tanzania killed 161 people, injured 250 others, damaged over 10,000 houses and affected 210,000 people in 51,000 households.. Aftermath Kenya. Residents were asked to move to higher ground for their own safety.
v. t. e. The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed dozens of people, with some early estimates reaching over a hundred deaths.
Adventurer, tour leader. Employer. Kayak the Nile [2] Television. The Longest River [3] Website. greatwhiteexplorer .blogspot .com. Hendrik "Hendri" Coetzee (c. 1975 – 7 December 2010) was a South African outdoorsman and author. [4] [5] He was killed after being taken by a crocodile in December 2010.
Flooding in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others, the prime minister said Thursday. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa told parliament ...