The boy assumed dead after the second crocodile attack in 2 weeks on the island of Indonesia Borneo
The boy is missing on the island of Indonesia Borneo after being attacked by crocodile, police said on Thursday, which is the second such attack in the area in two weeks.
Indonesia is home to several types of crocodiles that regularly attack and kill people.
A 10 -year -old boy jumped into the West Kalimanth Province on Rijeka on Bornean, one of the world’s most important islands, on Tuesday, when he was attacked by a crocodile 13 feet long, according to a friend.
“His friend witnessed the crocodile again, maulled the body of the victim and pulled it into the electricity,” the local police chief Rachmatul Isani Fachri said in a statement.
A friend warned the father of the boy, who sought his son’s body in the river using a speedboat, but he remained disappeared.
“Currently, a search and rescue team and the locals are still looking for a victim. Please pray to find him soon,” Rachmatul said.
Another boy disappeared in the same village after the crocodile attacked him while bathing, according to his uncle, who witnessed the attack, police announced on February 7th.
The search for six -year -old Cristiano Ricardo ended after seven days, and now he is assumed to be dead.
Borneo is divided between Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia, and the home is huge jungle tracts that host a wide variety of rare animals, including crocodiles of salty water.
Crocodile attacked and Killed a woman in December As she worked on a palm oil plantation in the same province of Borneo and later her body recovered.
In August the crocodile killed a 54-year-old woman While bathed in Rijeka on the Indonesian islands of Maluku. The same month, the 63-year-old Limara miner killed a crocodile near Rijeka on the island of Bangka in Sumatra.
Indonesia has also seen several deadly Python attacks in recent months. Last August, a The woman was found dead by her daughter after being attacked by a python in Central Indonesia.
In July the woman was Found dead inside the belly of a snake After swallowing her in the village of Siteb, in the South Sulawes province.
A month before, a The woman was found dead Inside the abdomen of a reticulated python in the second district of southern Sulawi.
