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As all Australians know ........ you don't swim at night in the Daintree .......
Cindy Waldron, 46, who is believed to have been taken by a crocodile at Thornton Beach while on holidays with Cairns woman Leeann Mitchell, 47, who is in hospital after the attack. PICTURE: FACEBOOK
http://www.news.com.au/national/que...e/news-story/6fe388583c115d24b443f0cf02df466b
http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/c...d/news-story/f27f1f2b62692f5335be018c0f0851cb
Cindy Waldron, 46, who is believed to have been taken by a crocodile at Thornton Beach while on holidays with Cairns woman Leeann Mitchell, 47, who is in hospital after the attack. PICTURE: FACEBOOK
Cindy Waldron, 46, was dragged under the water during a late-night swim at Thornton Beach in the Daintree National Park on Sunday night.
Police said friend Leeann Mitchell, 47, tried to drag her to safety, but she could not be rescued.
Ms Waldron’s New Zealand-based parents are making plans to travel to Queensland, where a desperate search is still underway for her remains.
“There’s nothing we can do as such but we need to be there on the ground to show that we are there, that we care. Our darling girl is gone,” Mr Waldron told The New Zealand Herald.
“We are pretty upset. Everybody knows about it. It’s everywhere.”
http://www.news.com.au/national/que...e/news-story/6fe388583c115d24b443f0cf02df466b
THE brother of a woman who survived what looks to be a fatal crocodile attack north of Cairns has spoken of the love between two friends and the disbelief over the tragedy that unfolded on the remote beach.
Cairns woman Leeann Mitchell, 47, was swimming with her childhood friend Cindy Waldron, 46, about 10pm on Sunday at Thornton Beach, Daintree, when it’s believed the crocodile attacked.
The two women are believed to have felt a nudge and Ms Waldron screamed before she was dragged away and disappeared.
Speaking to the Cairns Post from Wellington in New Zealand, John Mitchell said his sister was in a state of severe shock and recovering at Mossman Hospital.
http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/c...d/news-story/f27f1f2b62692f5335be018c0f0851cb