Crocodile suspected of killing Australian girl

A crocodile seen in an Australian swamp seconds before an 11-year-old girl disappeared is suspected of attacking and killing her, police said Monday.

If confirmed, it would be the second fatal crocodile attack in northern Australia in five weeks.

The girl had been swimming with her younger sister and two friends in the swamp on the outskirts of the northern city of Darwin when she disappeared, Northern Territory Police Superintendent Michael Murphy said.

The children told police that they saw the head and tail of a crocodile "splash the surface" of the water near where the girl had vanished moments earlier, …