A 23-year-old man has narrowly escaped serious injury during a crocodile attack in Arnhem Land
NT Police Watch Commander Siiri Tennosaar said the man was grabbed by the crocodile about 5:00pm on Tuesday afternoon while fishing on the Glyde River near an outstation south-east of Ramingining.
Commander Tennosaar said the man was hunting in waist-deep water when the crocodile attacked him.
"He was grabbed from behind by a 1.8 metre [crocodile] and the man held onto some mangroves and the crocodile for some reason released him and swam away," she said.
"So other than suffering some pretty deep lacerations to his upper thigh, he managed to get away with no life-threatening injuries."
He was treated at the local health clinic and taken to Gove Hospital.
"He should go straight to get a lotto ticket," Commander Tennosaar said.
