A thirty year old man from Crooked Tree village in the Belize District is tonight fighting for his life after he was bitten by a crocodile. Devin Swasey was diving for fish in the Crooked Tree Lagoon near Blackburn when he was attacked by what is being described as a 9 foot crocodile. Friends who were on the fishing expedition with Swasey managed to rescue him from the jaws of the crocodile, got him to a vehicle and drove him to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Devin Swasey is now in a sedated condition and is being prepared to transfer to the intensive care unit.

Patrick Jones