Public Swimming Pool Evacuated After Crocodile Is Spotted

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DARWIN, Australia -- Swimmers evacuated a public swimming pool here when they discovered they were sharing it with a might fearsome swimmer -- a crocodile.

About four people were swimming laps of the Olympic-length pool on the outskirts of Darwin when a life guard was alerted that a one-yard-long saltwater crocodile had been spotted.

"Lap swimmers were swimming and then a lady came up and said there was a crocodile," pool life guard Maxine Cross told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television.

The pool was closed until early afternoon Sunday when government wildlife authorities removed the young reptile. They described it as placid and in poor health.

Government spokesman Clay Smith could not say whether it had crawled to the pool from the wild or had been dumped there. It was taken to a Darwin crocodile farm where it will either join breeding stock or be slaughtered for leather.

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