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Indonesian woman mauled to death by crocodile
Feb 24, 2018
02:36 pm
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A 66-year-old woman was mauled to death by a huge crocodile on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, police said.
After she failed to return home from a riverside garden near Teluk Kuali village in Jambi province recently, her family and neighbors launched a search.
Locals became suspicious that she had been attacked, after seeing the crocodile near a boat containing her belongings.
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Crocodile ate both her hands and lower body
A police spokesperson from Jambi said, "Residents found the lifeless victim floating on the edge of the river. The crocodile had eaten the lower half of her body and both hands."
In another such instance, a Russian tourist was killed by a crocodile in the Raja Ampat islands, a popular diving site in the east of the archipelago in April 2016.