TRAGIC: CROCODILE MAULS PALM OIL PLANTATION WORKER TO DEATH IN INDONESIA
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According to local police, a woman was working on a palm oil plantation in central Indonesia when she was attacked and murdered by a crocodile. Her body was subsequently found in the animal’s clutches.
Numerous crocodile species that frequently attack and murder people can be found in Indonesia.
When the crocodile pursued the 44-year-old woman and her coworker in West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo, it bit the victim’s left hand and pulled her into a ditch.
After losing the struggle to free her from the animal’s jaws, the woman’s coworker fled to notify the authorities in Ketapang, a seaside district.
“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 women’s remains were discovered still in the crocodile’s grip “not far” from the location of the attack. The animal released her body when rescuers approached it, he added.
Borneo is split between Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia and is home to vast tracts of jungle hosting a kaleidoscope of rare animals.
Logging projects and palm oil plantations have already come under fire for encroaching into Borneo’s forested regions.
On Indonesia’s Maluku islands, a 54-year-old woman was killed by a crocodile in August while taking a river bath.
After a local man was killed by a crocodile in 2018, a mob in Papua, Indonesia’s easternmost district, massacred about 300 of the reptiles in retaliation.
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