A crocodile attacked and killed a woman who worked 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 the province of West Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, when a crocodile chased them, before biting the victim on the hand and dragging him into a ditch.
The man tried in vain to snatch his colleague from the jaws of the animalbefore alerting the police in the coastal district of Ketapang.
“The victim's body was found after 90 minutes of research“while the crocodile was still holding human remains in its jaws, local police chief Bagus Tri Baskoro said in a statement Thursday evening.
Regular attacks
The immense island of Borneo is shared between the Kingdom of Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia and is home to vast expanses of jungle housing a wide range of rare and sometimes dangerous animals.
But palm oil plantations and logging projects are largely encroaching on rainforest areas, threatening the rich wildlife.
Indonesia is home to several species of crocodiles, who regularly attack and kill humans.
In August, a crocodile killed a 54-year-old woman who was bathing in a river in the Moluccas Islands (east).
In 2018, in Papua, the easternmost province of Indonesia, an angry crowd massacred nearly 300 crocodiles to take revenge for the death of a resident killed by one of these reptiles.
