Woman who escaped Bali bomb killed by crocodile

A German tourist who narrowly escaped the Bali bomb has been killed by a crocodile in the Australian Outback.

Isabel von Jordan was in the Sari nightclub an hour before the explosion which killed at least 191 people.

Her body was pulled from the jaws of a 13-foot crocodile after she took a late night swim at Kakadu National Park in northern Australia.

A woman at the family’s estate in Tutzing, outside Munich, has confirmed the reports.

According to a Munich newspaper, Jordan, 25, and her sister went from Bali to Australia to visit friends hurt in the October 12 nightclub bomb.

Many of those injured were taken to Australia for treatment.

Guide to be charged for croc attack
A tour guide is to be charged with causing the death of a German woman in a crocodile attack in northern Australia last month, police said today.

A tour guide is to be charged with causing the death of a German woman in a crocodile attack in northern Australia last month, police said today.

Isabel von Jordan, a 25-year-old student, was killed by a crocodile while swimming with a tour group at a water hole in a national park last month. Her sister later told German officials the group’s Australian guide had said the spot was safe for swimming.

Northern Territory police Commander George Owen said the guide, whose name has not been released, would be charged with causing death through a dangerous act, a crime less serious than manslaughter. The guide faces up to 14 years’ jail.

Police will allege that the guide, who has taken tourists into the Kakadu National Park for the past 13 years, was drunk when von Jordan was killed, Owen said.

Jordan, from Tutzing, outside Munich, was among nine European tourists taking a late-night dip in a water hole sign-posted with warnings about crocodiles.

German officials said last month that von Jordan’s sister, Valerie, had told them the tourists had asked about the crocodile warning signs around the water hole. But the guide had told them it contained only freshwater crocodiles, which are not considered dangerous.

Von Jordan’s body was retrieved from the jaws of a 13 foot saltwater crocodile. Rangers found another eight saltwater crocodiles in the water hole.

The Darwin-based tour company which employed the guide, Gondwana Adventure Tours and Expeditions, declined to comment.

The two German sisters had gone to Australia from Bali to visit friends who had been flown to Darwin for treatment after being injured when a terrorist bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian holiday isle.

The two sisters had been in the nightclub only an hour before the terrorist attack.