Crocodile k!lls woman who was bathing in river

An Indonesian woman, Halima Rahakbauw, 54, has been k!lled by a crocodile after going to the river to have a bath. Halima went swimming in a river in Wali village on the Maluku islands on Tuesday morning, August 20 after looking for clams when the reptile struck.Rahakbauw's neighbour, Rustam Ilyas, said relatives and friends started a search when she failed to return home.They then spotted her sandal and a body part in the river, leading the villagers to report the incident to the police who killed the reptile."The villagers had to cut open the crocodile's belly to remove some of the victim's body parts," a local police officer, who requested anonymity as he was not authorised to speak on the matter, told AFP Wednesday. "The crocodile was quite big, around four metres (12 feet)long," neighbour Ilyas told AFP. Crocodiles attacking humans is very common in Indonesia.Just last week Sunday, a 63-year-old tin miner was killed by a crocodile near a river on Bangka island in Sumatra.In 2018, a mob in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua butchered nearly 300 crocodiles in revenge after a local man was killed by one of the reptiles. In 2019 a scientist was dragged by a huge captive crocodile into its enclosure and killed on the island of Sulawesi. The post Crocodile k!lls woman who was bathing in river appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.