Killer Crocodile Eats Head, Hands and Feet of Teenage Boy - thejakartaglobe.com

1 August 2011

Sorong, Papua. An Indonesian teenager fishing with friends in Papua was snatched from his boat by a killer crocodile over the weekend.

The body of the victim, Hanry Rumfable, 14, was found the next day minus his head, hands and feet.

He was a single child.

According to survivors Steven and Melki, the three friends were fishing 500 meters from their village on a small boat on the Salafem River in North Misol, Raja Ampat, when the crocodile struck and dragged Hanry into the water.

“I saw when he was being pulled by the crocodile off the boat and dragged into the water,” said Melky, 15, whose unsuccessfully attempted to pull Hanry free of the crocodile’s mouth by pulling on his friend’s T-shirt.

Villagers accompanied by soldiers conducted a search for Hanry’s body shortly after the incident was reported, though it was not until the next day that they found his body tucked between mangrove trees.

Melky said he was still in shock after witnessing the gory attack and had been too afraid to return home to tell Hanry’s parents what had happened to their only son.