This is the astonishing moment police in South Africa swooped to airlift a huge 15ft crocodile suspected of eating a missing businessman. An officer dangling from a rope recovered the 500kg reptile ...

Footage of the capture, shared by police, shows an officer and the 4.5-metre-long crocodile hanging from a rope suspended from the helicopter.

A massive crocodile suspected of eating a missing businessman was airlifted by helicopter from South Africa's Komati River after being euthanized.

A man disappeared after his car became stranded at a flooded low-water bridge, and authorities believe he was taken by a crocodile in the Komati River. A police officer was hoisted from a helicopter ...

The crocodile was euthanised after Gabriel Batista, a hotel owner, went missing. Batista’s suspected remains were found inside the reptile.

The mortal remains of a South African hotel boss have been found inside a 15-foot crocodile after it was airlifted. Gabriel Batista, 59, was believed to have been eaten up in the croc-infested Komati ...

Tracking massive man-eating crocodile during expedition ...