A crocodile attacked and killed a woman working on an oil palm plantation on the island of Borneo in central Indonesia. Local police said the 44-year-old woman was working with a colleague in West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo when a crocodile chased them, biting the victim on the left hand and dragging her into a ditch.
The man tried in vain to free her from the animal's jaws before alerting police in the coastal district of Ketapang. " The victim's body was found after 90 minutes of searching, while the crocodile was still holding the human remains in its jaws ," local police chief Bagus Tri Baskoro said in a statement. The huge island of Borneo is shared by the Kingdom of Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia and is home to swathes of jungle that are home to a wide range of rare and sometimes dangerous animals. But oil palm plantations and logging projects are encroaching heavily on areas of rainforest, threatening the rich wildlife.
Indonesia is home to several species of crocodiles that regularly attack and kill humans . In 2018, an angry mob slaughtered nearly 300 crocodiles in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua to avenge the death of a resident killed by one.
(Online Union)
