(Pictured) Brit journalist snatched by crocodile while washing hands

A British holidaymaker is presumed dead after being snatched by a crocodile in Sri Lanka.

Financial Times journalist,Paul McClean, who worked as a reporter on the newspaper's fastFT desk in London.

He is missing after the huge reptile grabbed him and dragged him underwater at a lagoon called Crocodile Rock.

According to the UK Mirror, the 25-year-old was last seen "waving his hands in the air" after being seized by the crocodile as he washed his hands in the jungle.

It was said that he had gone to the area for a surfing lesson and had wandered away from friends to go to the toilet.