An eight-year-old girl has been killed by a crocodile in Papua New Guinea's Gulf Province after her mother fought in vain to pull her daughter from the animal's jaws.
Police have told the newspaper, The National, that the girl was making sago with her mother by the riverside at Samoa village in Kikori district when the three-metre crocodile suddenly surfaced and struck.
Villagers watched in horror as it grabbed the girl then entered a tug of war with the mother who seized her daughter's hand and tried but failed to pull her free.