Stay away from the water!

A crocodile is terrorising Tiwi islanders. Source: Northern Territory News

The croc trapped at Fogg Dam. Picture: NT PARKS AND WILDLIFE Source: Northern Territory News

A BIG crocodile is terrorising Tiwi islanders.

It is lurking around a beach at Pirlangimpi, on Melville Island, about 130km northwest of Darwin, the Northern Territory News reported.

Rangers have found tracks of the three metre-long animal near a picnic table.

Senior Sergeant Debbie Gabolinscy said: "People should take care."

The reports follow the capture of a 4m saltie at Fogg Dam.
 

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Horror over 'funny-tasting' hotel water

Elisa Lam's body was found in a water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles after guests complained about low water pressure. Source: AP

A COUPLE on holiday in Los Angeles have told how they drank, showered and brushed their teeth with water from a rooftop tank at a hotel - where a woman's body had been decomposing for three weeks.

It was only when the bloated body of 21-year-old university student Elisa Lam was discovered this week that they found out why the hotel water tasted "funny".

Sabina Baugh, 27, spent eight days with husband Michael, also 27, at the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA.

The area has one of the highest crime rates in the city, so rather than go in search of bottled water at night, they drank from the tap.

Yesterday Mrs Baugh, a piano teacher, said: "The water did have a very funny, disgusting taste. We never thought anything of it. We thought it was just the way it was here."

Mr Baugh, a guitarist and music teacher, added: "The moment we found out, we felt sick to the stomach, quite literally. We're not well mentally. It's the psychological stuff. If you think about it, it's not good."

The couple also said water at the hotel, given a two-star rating on review site TripAdvisor, had been trickling from the tap. Other guests reported flooding. The couple, from Plymouth, are now staying in another part of the city and the authorities are testing the water in the area for contamination.

Police confirmed yesterday that the body was Elisa Lam, a student at the University of British Columbia in Canada, who was travelling to Santa Cruz in northern California when she disappeared at the start of the month to the distress of her family.

Police don't know how Miss Lam died or how she ended up in the tank on the roof of the hotel, which is protected by locked doors and an alarm.

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Horror over 'funny-tasting' hotel water

Elisa Lam's body was found in a water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles after guests complained about low water pressure. Source: AP

A COUPLE on holiday in Los Angeles have told how they drank, showered and brushed their teeth with water from a rooftop tank at a hotel - where a woman's body had been decomposing for three weeks.

It was only when the bloated body of 21-year-old university student Elisa Lam was discovered this week that they found out why the hotel water tasted "funny".

Sabina Baugh, 27, spent eight days with husband Michael, also 27, at the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA.

The area has one of the highest crime rates in the city, so rather than go in search of bottled water at night, they drank from the tap.

Yesterday Mrs Baugh, a piano teacher, said: "The water did have a very funny, disgusting taste. We never thought anything of it. We thought it was just the way it was here."

Mr Baugh, a guitarist and music teacher, added: "The moment we found out, we felt sick to the stomach, quite literally. We're not well mentally. It's the psychological stuff. If you think about it, it's not good."

The couple also said water at the hotel, given a two-star rating on review site TripAdvisor, had been trickling from the tap. Other guests reported flooding. The couple, from Plymouth, are now staying in another part of the city and the authorities are testing the water in the area for contamination.

Police confirmed yesterday that the body was Elisa Lam, a student at the University of British Columbia in Canada, who was travelling to Santa Cruz in northern California when she disappeared at the start of the month to the distress of her family.

Police don't know how Miss Lam died or how she ended up in the tank on the roof of the hotel, which is protected by locked doors and an alarm.

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Tourist's body found in water tank

Elisa Lam's body was found in a water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles after guests complained about low water pressure. Source: AP

POLICE say the body of a woman found wedged in a water tank on the roof of a Los Angeles hotel is that of a missing Canadian guest.

Investigators used body markings to identify 21-year-old Elisa Lam, police spokeswoman Officer Diana Figueroa said late on Tuesday.

A maintenance worker at the Cecil Hotel found the body earlier in the day after guests complained of low water pressure.

Lam, of Vancouver, British Columbia, travelled to California alone on January 27 and was last seen by workers at the hotel on January 31.

Investigators were trying to determine whether there was foul play in the woman's death or "a very, very strange accident" occurred, police spokeswoman Officer Sara Faden said.

"The location of the water tank is very small and configured in a very tight way, so it's a little more difficult to get the body out," Ms Faden said.

Officials spent much of the day struggling to remove it from the water tank.

The hotel is located in downtown Los Angeles, which has long struggled against the creeping destitution of nearby Skid Row, where drug addiction and homelessness is rampant.

At the time of Lam's disappearance, police said it appeared suspicious.

Lam was travelling to Santa Cruz, about 560 kilometres north of Los Angeles, and officials said she tended to use public transport.

She had been in touch with her family daily until she disappeared.

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Tourist's body found in water tank

Elisa Lam's body was found in a water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles after guests complained about low water pressure. Source: AP

POLICE say the body of a woman found wedged in a water tank on the roof of a Los Angeles hotel is that of a missing Canadian guest.

Investigators used body markings to identify 21-year-old Elisa Lam, police spokeswoman Officer Diana Figueroa said late on Tuesday.

A maintenance worker at the Cecil Hotel found the body earlier in the day after guests complained of low water pressure.

Lam, of Vancouver, British Columbia, travelled to California alone on January 27 and was last seen by workers at the hotel on January 31.

Investigators were trying to determine whether there was foul play in the woman's death or "a very, very strange accident" occurred, police spokeswoman Officer Sara Faden said.

"The location of the water tank is very small and configured in a very tight way, so it's a little more difficult to get the body out," Ms Faden said.

Officials spent much of the day struggling to remove it from the water tank.

The hotel is located in downtown Los Angeles, which has long struggled against the creeping destitution of nearby Skid Row, where drug addiction and homelessness is rampant.

At the time of Lam's disappearance, police said it appeared suspicious.

Lam was travelling to Santa Cruz, about 560 kilometres north of Los Angeles, and officials said she tended to use public transport.

She had been in touch with her family daily until she disappeared.

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