A crocodile that terrorised an Aboriginal community in northern Australia by attacking residents and eating their dogs was itself eaten by them during a traditional festival, Australian police said on Wednesday.
The 3.6-meter-long crocodile "tracked children and adults" in a small village away from other human settlements, "jumping at them from the water," and "kidnapped several dogs," said the police of the Australian state of the Northern Territory.
After meeting with Aboriginal elders, police shot the reptile on Tuesday. "The community prepared a dish from it as part of a traditional festival," local Aborigines confirmed to AFP.
The crocodile appeared in a river near the village, which is about a six-hour drive south of the Northern Territory capital, Darwin, during flooding earlier this year.
One policeman told ABC public television that from what he knew, "crocodile tail soup was cooked" and several pieces of crocodile meat "wrapped in banana leaves and baked."
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This article was originally published on Onet Travel.