Villagers saw the lower half of a man’s body dangling
from the mouth of a 20m-long crocodile. (AP file photo)
THE STAR/ANN
Sunday 19 Dec
KUCHING: A 66-year-old man was eaten alive by a crocodile when
he went fishing in a river near his house at
Kampung Reban in Asajaya, some 60km from here.
Villagers saw the lower half of Sidi Samat’s body dangling
from the mouth of a 20m-long crocodile resting in the middle
of the Batang Samarahan river at around 10.30am yesterday.
However, a hastily assembled search and rescue team comprising
six villagers using a longboat and equipped with a shotgun, failed
to locate the crocodile.
“He went fishing by the river at around 6.30am. He normally
returns home in less than an hour, but when he did not come back
after 8am, I called for help to look for him,” Sidi’s wife,
Dayang Sara Awang Shahrut, 60, told reporters at her
house yesterday in front of the river where the incident took
place.
Relatives and villagers who went to the river to look for
Sidi soon after Dayang Sara called for help, were shocked to
see his body inside the crocodile’s mouth.
“We saw a huge crocodile in the middle of the river. I saw
Sidi’s legs inside the mouth of the crocodile. But it was too far.
We could not reach him,” said Ismail Awang Uding, who then
informed the police and Bomba.
“I prayed and talked to the crocodile, asking it to come ashore.
It came to the shore, but before we could do anything, it immersed
itself in the river,” Ismail said.
According to the villagers, crocodiles are a common sight there
but they never came up the banks and the villagers always avoided
them.
Villagers said it has been more than 10 years since the last
crocodile attack.
Source:
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/12/19/man-eaten-alive-by-crocodile-in-malaysia/