Phnom Penh:
About 40 crocodiles killed a Cambodian man on Friday after he fell into their enclosure at his family’s reptile farm, police said.
The 72-year-old was trying to get a crocodile out of a cage where it had laid eggs when he grabbed the stick he was using as a goad and pulled it inside.
The main group of reptiles then gathered around him, ripping his body apart and leaving the concrete fence at the farm in Siem Reap awash in blood.
“While chasing a crocodile out of an egg-laying cage, the crocodile attacked the stick, causing it to fall into the fence,” Mey Savry, police chief of the Siem Reap municipality, told AFP.
“Then other crocodiles attacked him and attacked him until he was dead,” he said, adding that the remains of the man’s body were covered in bite marks.
He said one of the man’s arms had been bitten off and swallowed by the crocodiles.
A two-year-old girl was killed and eaten by crocodiles in 2019 when she walked into her family’s reptile farm in the same village, the police chief said.
There are a number of crocodile farms around Siem Reap, the gateway to the famous ruins of Angkor Wat.
The reptiles are kept for their eggs, skins and meat, but also for the trade in their young.
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