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Crocodile Hunter R.I.P.

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Steve Irwin, the "Crocodile Hunter", was killed by a stingray barb to the heart yesterday.

A story, from Australia's Daily Telegraph:

The Australian reports that the footage shows that Irwin was swimming above a 2.5m stingray before it turned on him.

"The ray stopped and turned and that was it," boatowner Peter West, who viewed the footage afterwards, is quoted as saying in tomorrow's edition of The Australian newspaper. 

"Something happened with this animal and made it rear and he was in the wrong position at the wrong time and if it hit him anywhere else we would not be talking about a fatality," Mr West says in the report.