COLOMBO, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan naval forces on Friday found the body of a 25-year-old Briton who had been dragged away by a crocodile in a muddy lagoon in Panama, around 360 km east of capital Colombo.
A police spokesman told Xinhua that an investigation into the death had been launched after the victim's friends alerted the police on Thursday afternoon.
The victim, Paul McClean, along with a group of his friends was on holiday in Sri Lanka and had visited the beach in Panama.
He had then wandered away to find a toilet when he stumbled into an area known to be infested with crocodiles.
The police said that a post mortem examination would be conducted.
According to British media, McClean was a journalist who worked for the Financial Times in Britain.
