About 40 crocodiles killed a Cambodian man on Friday after he fell into their enclosure on his household’s reptile farm, police stated.
Luan Nam, 72, was attempting to maneuver a crocodile out of a cage the place it had laid eggs when it grabbed the stick he was utilizing as a goad and pulled him in.
The principle group of reptiles then set about him, tearing his physique to items and leaving the concrete enclosure on the farm in Siem Reap awash with blood.
“Whereas he was chasing a crocodile out of an egg-laying cage, the crocodile attacked the stick, inflicting him to fall into the enclosure,” Mey Savry, police chief of Siem Reap commune, instructed AFP.
“Then different crocodiles pounced, attacking him till he was useless,” he stated, including that the stays of Luan Nam’s physique have been lined with chew marks.
One of many man’s arms was bitten off and swallowed by the crocodiles, he stated.
Luan Nam was the president of the native crocodile farmers’ affiliation however his household could now promote his inventory, after urging him for years to cease elevating the reptiles, commune chief Could Sameth instructed AFP.
Native media reported that the sufferer was from Po Banteay Chey village.
A two-year-old lady was killed and eaten by crocodiles in 2019 when she wandered into her household’s reptile farm in the identical village, the police chief stated.
There are a selection of crocodile farms round Siem Reap, the gateway metropolis to the famed ruins of Angkor Wat.
The reptiles are stored for his or her eggs, skins and meat in addition to the commerce of their younger.
The incident marks not less than the second individual killed by a crocodile this month. In early Could, the stays of a lacking 65-year-old fisherman in Australia have been discovered inside two crocodiles.
Final 12 months, two American vacationers have been injured by a crocodile at a resort in Mexico when one went swimming within the ocean at night time and the opposite went within the water to assist him.
