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Crocodile mauls plantation worker in West Kalimantan to death
The 44-year-old woman was working with a colleague in the province when the crocodile chased the pair, biting the victim on her left hand and dragging her into a ditch.
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A 5-meter estuarine crocodile weighing up to 500 kilograms is moved at Kasang Kulim Zoo in Kampar, Riau on Feb. 8, 2023, after being caught by residents of Mandiangin village in West Pasaman, West Sumatra who considered it a threat to people's safety. (AFP/Wahyudi)
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crocodile attacked and killed a woman as she worked on a palm oil plantation in West Kalimantan, local police said, with her body later recovered from the animal's clutches.
The 44-year-old woman was working with a colleague in the province when the crocodile chased the pair, biting the victim on her left hand and dragging her into a ditch.
The woman's colleague tried to pull her from the animal's jaws but lost the fight, before running to alert police in the coastal Kendawangan district, Ketapang regency.
"After a 90-minute search, the victim's body was found," Kendawangan Police chief First Insp. 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 Island, which is split between Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Indonesia, is home to vast tracts of jungle hosting a kaleidoscope of rare animals. Palm oil plantations and logging projects have in the past been criticized for encroaching on Borneo's rainforest areas.
Indonesia itself is home to several species of crocodiles that regularly attack and kill humans.
In August, a crocodile killed a 54-year-old woman as she bathed in a river in Maluku.
In 2018, a mob in Papua butchered nearly 300 crocodiles in revenge after a local man was killed by one of the reptiles.
