This is National Times columnist whose body is swallowed by a crocodile (Photo)

The body of a British journalist believed to have been killed by a crocodile was found today in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka police said that the 24-year-old Paul McClean's body, which worked for <x0Final Times”, was found a day after being seen crawling in a lagoon from a chrodocyle, reported the “The Guardian”, the transit Periscope.

James Lamont, managing editor of é FTH, he said: Our “We're in touch with them, doing everything we can to help through this difficult time”.

Lamont described McClean as “a talented, energetic and dedicated journalist at work”.

Some local residents have found McClean's body in the mud of a lagoon in the coastal village of Panama, 225 miles (360 km) east of the capital, Columbus.

“There were six or seven injuries to his right leg”, a police official for the news agency “Agence France-Presse” said.

McClean was on vacation in Sri Lanka with friends. The Witnesses told reporters that he had left to find a toilet when he entered an area covered with crocodiles.

Fawas Lafeer, owner of é Safa Surf School, located on the coast from which the incident occurred, said witnesses saw a crocodile dragging McClean. He said: “He went into the jungle, about 800 meters. He was cleaning his hands when the crocodile suddenly took over”.

A friend, who asked not to be named, described McClean, whom he met at the university as very smiling and clever “It declared for “The Guardian”: “He was an extremely beautiful and attentive person”.

She added: “It was simply a very good human being”./Periscopi/