CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – A boy who vanished from an Australian river edge last week was eaten by a crocodile, police said late Tuesday.

The remains of 5-year-old Jeremy Doble were found in the stomach of a 14-foot, male crocodile trapped in the flooded Daintree River – an international attraction for ecotourists – near where the boy went missing Feb. 8, the police statement said.

Jeremy was playing with his 7-year-old brother, Ryan, and their dog behind their family property in a flooded mangrove swamp when he disappeared. Ryan told officers that he saw a crocodile immediately after missing his brother but did not see an attack, police said.

A 10-foot, female crocodile was trapped last week but released after a non-lethal surgical procedure found no evidence that it had attacked a human.

Guatemala says ‘sorry’ to Cuba

HAVANA (AP) – Guatemalan President Alv aro Colom apologized to Cuba on Tuesday for his country’s having allowed the CIA to train exiles in the Central American country for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

“Today I want to ask Cuba’s forgiveness for having offered our country, our territory, to prepare an invasion of Cuba. It wasn’t us, but it was our territory,” Colom said during a speech at the University of Havana.

He added that he wished to apologize “as president and head of state, and as commander in chief of the Guatemalan army.”

About 1,500 Cuban exiles trained under CIA guidance in Guatemala before invading the island in April 1961 in an unsuccessful bid to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist government.

The Bay of Pigs invasion ended after three days with about 100 invaders killed and another 1,000 captured by Cuban forces.

During his official visit to Cuba, Colom was awarding Guatemala’s highest honor to Castro. It was unclear if the ailing 82-year-old former president would receive the medal in person or if it would be delivered to him later.

Castro met in recent days with two other visiting Latin American presidents, Cristina Fernandez of Argentina and Chile’s Michelle Bachelet. Photographs of him with each of the presidents were later released by their respective governments.

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crocodiles since 1971, and their numbers have grown steadily in Australia’s tropical waters, but regulations permit authorities to destroy crocodiles that threaten humans.

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