Buaya Diduga Terkam Nenek di Jambi Hingga Tewas
Indonesian Woman Mauled to Death by Crocodile
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
SEORANG wanita berusia 66 tahun digigit seekor buaya hingga tewas di Provinsi Jambi, kata polisi Sabtu.
Keluarga dan tetangga wanita naas tersebut kemudian berupaya mencari setelah sang nenek malang tersebut tidak pulang ke rumahnya di tepi sungai dekat desa terpencil di Teluk Kuali di provinsi Jambi awal pekan ini.
Penduduk setempat menjadi curiga bahwa dia diserang hewan buas tersebut setelah melihat seekor buaya besar di dekat sebuah kapal tengah menggigit kain sang nenek.
"Warga menemukan korban sudah tidak bernyawa mengambang di tepi sungai," kata Kabid Humas Polda Jambi, AKBP Kuswahyudi Tresnadi kepada AFP.
Buaya itu memakan bagian bawah tubuhnya dan kedua tangannya, kata Tresnadi.
Indonesia sebagai negara kepulauan dikenal sebagai habitat beragam satwa liar, termasuk beberapa spesies buaya yang kerap menyerang dan membunuh manusia.
Pada April 2016, seorang turis Rusia tewas diterkam buaya di kepulauan Raja Ampat, sebuah situs selam yang populer di Papua Barat seperti dilansir MailOnline.
A 66-YEAR-OLD woman was mauled to death by a huge crocodile on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, police said Saturday.
The Indonesian woman´s family and neighbours launched a search after she failed to return home from a riverside garden near the remote village of Teluk Kuali in Jambi province earlier this week.
Locals became suspicious she had been attacked after seeing a huge crocodile near a boat containing her belongings, police said.
"Residents found the lifeless victim floating on the edge of the river," Kuswahyudi Tresnadi, Jambi police spokesman, told AFP.
The crocodile had eaten the lower half of her body and both hands, Tresnadi said.
The Indonesian archipelago is home to a vast array of exotic wildlife, including several species of crocodile that regularly attack and kill humans.
In April 2016, a Russian tourist was killed by a crocodile in the Raja Ampat islands, a popular diving site in the east of the archipelago.
