Crocodile Hunter Irwin killed

**toxic_theone** · #1 09-07-2006, 02:46 PM

Crocodile Hunter Irwin killed

With his trademark khaki shorts, chirpy manner and an obvious love of wildlife, Steve Irwin was known to television viewers around the world simply as "the crocodile hunter"

Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast. Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray's barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.
Paramedics from Cairns rushed to the scene but were unable to save him.

In a fitting tribute to a man known as the Crocodile Hunter, flowers were laid
in a wooden sculpture of one of the reptiles.

Australian naturalist and animal-lover Steve Irwin has died after being struck in the
chest by a stingray's barb.

Irwin had been filming a documentary on his boat Croc One in Queensland's Great Barrier
Reef on the day of his death. Paramedics were unable to save his life.

Mr Irwin's wife Terri was often at his side, to help deal with animals such as the albino Burmese python.Father- of-two Mr Irwin grew up on his parents' reptile park and became fascinated with animals after receiving a python as a present on his sixth birthday.

Mr Irwin, who handled dangerous animals such as the taipan snake, turned a small reptile park in Queensland into Australia Zoo. It has now become a major wildlife centre.