Illustrative image of mangrove swamps in Australia.
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In Australia, a man was found naked by two fishermen in a remote area in the far north of the country.
The fugitive, wanted for not having respected his judicial control, survived by eating snails and climbing trees.
Kevin Joiner and Cam Faust were fishing on Sunday afternoon near Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, when they heard calls for help from the man, who was covered in mud and mosquito bites, according to local media.
“We didn't understand what he was doing there,” Kevin Joiner told Nine News on Wednesday.
“We thought he had a hectic New Year.
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Two fishermen have bizarrely stumbled across a naked fugitive in the Northern Territory, who had been hiding in a mangrove tree over croc-infested waters.
The wanted man said he'd been eating snails and was desperate for water.
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Shorts and a beer
The man was dehydrated and needed help, so the fishermen took him with them, gave him shorts, a beer, and took him to Darwin.
But once in hospital, he was arrested for failing to comply with his judicial review in an armed robbery case.
The two fishermen said they were amazed because the man told them he got lost while walking around the area.
"It was while going to visit him in the hospital that we discovered this," said Cam Faust.
Len Turner, a Northern Territory police official, confirmed to media that the man was being prosecuted in several cases.
"He is under arrest but is still at the Royal Darwin Hospital, where he is being treated for his self-inflicted ordeal," he told NT News.
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