A 72-year-old farmer was killed by ‘about 40 crocodiles’ this morning after falling into their enclosure on the household’s reptile farm.
Luan Nam was making an attempt to maneuver a crocodile out of its cage in Cambodia the place it had laid eggs when it grabbed the stick he was utilizing as a goad and pulled him in.
A gaggle of reptiles swarmed him, tearing his physique to items and leaving the enclosure in Siem Reap awash with blood.
The physique was pictured, recovered, after the incident, however police stated the person’s arm was torn off and swallowed by the crocodiles.
Farmers in Cambodia usually breed and promote crocodiles to consumers in China, Thailand and Vietnam the place their pores and skin could be made into leather-based and different merchandise.
Mey Savry, police chief of Siem Reap commune, advised AFP: ‘Whereas he was chasing a crocodile out of an egg-laying cage, the crocodile attacked the stick, inflicting him to fall into the enclosure.’
‘Then different crocodiles pounced, attacking him till he was lifeless,’ he stated.
He added that the stays of the person’s physique have been coated with chew marks.
Pictures after the assault confirmed the large beasts nonetheless paddling within the pool after the physique was recovered.
Native information reported that the sufferer was from Po Banteay Chey village inside the Siem Reap commune, exterior of town.
Siem Reap is the second largest metropolis in Cambodia, house to the Angkor Wat Buddhist temple complicated.
Angkor Wat is taken into account the world’s largest spiritual construction.
Nam was additionally named because the president of the nation’s Crocodile Affiliation.
He was stated to have died at round 5am on Could 26 2023.
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 variety 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.
Crocodile farmers have additionally more and more labored with conservationists in Cambodia in recent times.
This article by James Reynolds was first printed by The Day by day Mail on 26 Could 2023. Lead Picture: Massive crocodiles are pictured sitting collectively within the enclosure in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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