Crocodile attack: Man killed by 3.5-metre saltie at Cahill's Crossing in Kakadu.

By Xavier La Canna

A man has been killed by a crocodile at the notorious Cahill’s Crossing in the Northern Territory after trying to walk cross the East Alligator River in actions police have described as “foolish”.

The 47-year-old man thought to be from a remote community was at the crossing with two women about 4pm yesterday when the trio decided to try and make it across.

Cahill’s Crossing is not a footbridge, and at the time of the attack a recommendation on the NT Government’s road report website said only high-clearance four-wheel drive vehicles should cross.

The man was attacked by a 3.5-metre crocodile, which killed him.

“Cahill’s Crossing is notorious for crocodiles and to walk across it to me is just foolishness,” NT Police Duty Superintendent Bob Harrison said.

“You are tempting fate, knowing the size of the crocodiles in that area,” Mr Harrison told ABC Radio Darwin this morning.

There has been images previously of people standing in the waters there at Cahill’s Crossing and in October last year a woman tried to shoo away a large crocodile with a thong that appeared to be stalking her on the river’s edge.

This post originally appeared on ABC News.