A Cape York local who came to the aid of two soldiers mauled by a crocodile in Queensland's far north says he can't fathom why the pair decided to go for a swim.
Queensland has recorded nine new locally-acquired cases of COVID-19 with the greater southeast to come out of lockdown, but a new mystery case will send Cairns into lockdown at the same time.
A soldier has head, chest and arm injuries after being mauled by a crocodile that also attacked an Army colleague who went to his aid in far north Queensland.
Authorities are increasingly confident southeast Queensland will emerge from an eight-day lockdown on Sunday amid the state's worst COVID-19 outbreak in a year.
Queensland is facing its biggest COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic's first wave, with a cluster growing to 63 cases halfway through an eight-day lockdown of the state's southeast.
