Crocodile kills woman in Indonesia despite coworker’s attempt to pull her from animal’s jaws
A woman working on a palm oil plantation in central Indonesia was attacked and killed by a crocodile, and her body was later pulled from the crocodile’s grasp, local police said.
Indonesia is home to several species of crocodiles Attack and kill regularly human beings.
The 44-year-old woman was working with a colleague in the West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo when the crocodile chased the two, biting the victim’s left hand and dragging her into a ditch.
Police said the woman’s colleagues tried to pull her out of the animal’s mouth but failed and ran to alert police in the coastal area of ​​Ketapang.
“After a 90-minute search, the victim’s body was found,” local police chief Bagus Tri Baskoro said in a statement late Thursday.
He said the remains of several women were found “not far” from the site of the attack, still held by the crocodiles. He added that the animal released her body as rescuers approached it.
Borneo is divided into Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia. It has large jungles and is home to a variety of rare animals.
Palm oil plantations and logging projects have been criticized in the past for encroaching on areas of Borneo’s rainforest.
August, crocodile Killed a 54-year-old woman while she was bathing in a river in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands. In the same month, a 63-year-old tin miner was killed by a crocodile near a river in Bangka Island, Sumatra.
In 2019, a scientist was dragged into a pen by a giant captive crocodile and died on the island of Sulawesi.
In 2018, a thug in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua region slaughtered nearly 300 crocodiles in retaliation for a local man being killed by one of the reptiles.
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Indonesia has also seen a number of fatal python attacks this year. August, one woman found dead After her daughter was attacked by a python in central Indonesia.
In July, a woman Found dead inside snake’s belly It swallowed her whole body in the village of Steba in South Sulawesi province.
One month before that, a woman found dead Inside the belly of a reticulated python in another area of ​​South Sulawesi.
