A grandfather was left with severe injuries after a crocodile snatched his arm at a well-liked park.
Locals believed the reptile was tame, and infrequently visited the ‘lucky’ croc which had been saved from a flood last week.
The animal was kept at a neighborhood theme park for residents to make offerings in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Things took a turn when an elderly man reached out to supply food to the predator after I latched onto his arm and pulled him into the waters below.
Onlookers screamed as the person was lashed backwards and forwards within the croc’s jaws before it will definitely released him. Firefighters arrived on the Cimory Dairyland centre to take the person to hospital.
He was left with a severely injured arm.
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Siti Aisyah witnessed the chaos and said: ‘The grandfather was bitten by a crocodile when he wanted to provide him food.’
The local fire department chief Hasanuddin said the croc was caught in a flooded residential area on February 12 before being kept on the Cimory tourist attraction, which also includes mini-windmills, dairy animals and farming exhibitions.
Bosses had hoped that locals would visit to provide donations to the crocodile, but have surrendered the crocodile to be released by qualified wildlife staff.
Hasanuddin said: ‘After we arrived, residents were already crowded at the situation and directed us to the victim, so the evacuation process was quick.
‘We received information that this crocodile was previously seen near a landfill and had laid eggs on land. If there’s one female crocodile, there’s likely a male crocodile still lurking around.’
The Indonesian archipelago is home to 14 kinds of crocs – with a big population of extremely large and violent estuarine crocodiles that flourish within the region’s climate.
Conservationists imagine that crocodiles have been driven further inland closer to villages attributable to overfishing reducing the crocodiles’ natural food supplies combined with habitat loss.
Many locals still use rivers for bathing and primitive fishing, the deadly combination of things has led to rising numbers of crocodile attacks.
In December, a killer croc was filmed resurfacing with the body of a 46-year-old woman in its jaws hours after mauling her to death.
Nurhawati Zihura decided to clean her feet in some seawater when the crocodile grabbed her.
Locals ventured into the waters in boats, throwing chicken on the crocodile to attempt to distract it from the dead body.
When the Croc eventually did let her go, helpers pulled her out of the water and took Nurhawati back to shore.
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