This is the horrifying moment an Indonesian grandfather was mauled to death by a crocodile and dragged around in the beast’s jaws in front of terrified villagers.
Footage shows the 10ft crocodile swimming away with the 80-year-old man, named only as Wasim, in its mouth as onlookers armed with sticks bravely chased it from the banks of the Semaka River in Lampung yesterday.
The reptile was said to have violently attacked Wasim as he bathed in the river near his home in the Tanggamus Regency in southern Indonesia.
The elderly man was unable to shout for help as the croc yanked him under the surface.
A villager found Wasim’s clothes on the riverbank and gathered other locals to look for him, when they suddenly spotted the man being dragged by the crocodile in the water.
Fearless residents then rushed into the shallow river with sticks, as footage shows them frantically battering the beast.
Semaka Police Chief AKP Sutarto said: ‘The victim was found within an hour or at 13.00 WIB, after the crocodile emerged carrying him in its mouth.
‘After being struck several times, the crocodile finally released the victim’s body. But when recovered, he was already in a lifeless state.’
An Indonesian grandfather was mauled to death by a crocodile and dragged around in the beast’s jaws
Footage shows how villagers armed with sticks bravely chased the crocodile from the banks of the Semaka River in Lampung yesterday as they tried to free the man
Wasim’s son-in-law Samugi said: ‘It was just a normal day for us. We didn’t expect it to end tragically like this.’
The police chief added that Wasim had suffered jagged wounds on his back and shoulders.
Cops have urged residents to be more careful when carrying out activities in the river to prevent similar attacks from occurring.
Indonesia has the most crocodile attacks in the world.
There were at least 1,000 incidents over the past decade – though many more are believed to have been unreported.
The tragedy comes after a teenage boy was mauled to death in Indonesia by a crocodile in front of his horrified friend last month.
La Bayu, 17, was fishing with his friend Inguu in the Kaleleha River in Southeast Sulawesi on June 2 when he was snatched up by the huge beast.
Horrific footage taken by a rescue team shows the teen’s body being dragged along the river by the killer croc as the predator held his lifeless body in its jaws.
A video shows the 10ft crocodile swimming away with the 80-year-old man in its jaws
The elderly man was unable to shout for help as the croc yanked him beneath the surface. In this screen grab, villagers can be seen gathered on the banks of the river as they try to scare the animal away
By the time locals managed to free the man, he was already dead
Following the bloody attack, Inguu leapt into the river and tried to grapple with the powerful crocodile in a desperate attempt to save his friend.
However, the animal flung Inguu away as it continued thrashing La Bayu around in a gruesome death roll.
Rescue workers and residents used a net to catch the animal and collect the victim’s butchered corpse.
La Bayu was reportedly found with severe injuries near his armpit, a fractured right arm, a severed left hand, and a torn waist.
The Indonesian archipelago is home to 14 types of crocs – with a large population of extremely large and violent estuarine crocodiles that flourish in the region’s climate.
Conservationists believe that crocodiles have been driven further inland closer to villages due to overfishing reducing the crocodiles’ natural food supplies combined with habitat loss from the development of coastal areas into farms.
Widespread tin mining has also caused villagers to encroach on the crocodiles’ natural habitats, pushing the creatures closer toward people’s homes.
With uneducated locals in the developing country still using rivers for bathing and primitive fishing, the deadly combination of factors has led to rising numbers of crocodile attacks.
A local resident can be seen in the shallow river chasing down the beast with a stick as the croc drags the lifeless body of its victim
Indonesia is known for having the most crocodile attacks in the world
Conservationists believe that crocodiles have been driven further inland closer to villages due to overfishing reducing the crocodiles’ natural food supplies
There were at least 1,000 incidents over the past decade – though many more are believed to have been unreported
It also comes after a heavily pregnant woman was killed by a crocodile while cooking lunch at her flooded home in Indonesia.
Munirah, 28, was standing in the swamped kitchen when the animal sank its fangs into her leg in North Kalimantan on May 27.
The mother-to-be, who was only identified by her first name, screamed as the beast then tried to thrash her in a death roll.
Hearing her pained cries, Munirah’s sister Ana Maria rushed over and found her sibling holding onto a tree branch.
She rushed out of the room to find a weapon with which to beat the huge animal, but it had already dragged Munirah into the water by the time she returned.
Villagers searched along the Mambulu River. Footage shows several men firing a shotgun at the predator, but it retreated into the muddy waters.
Around half an hour later, they found a lifeless Munirah body floating in the flood.
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