Directorate of Environment in Al Diwaniyah Province said on Sunday that a big crocodile appeared in Al Diwaniyah River and that for the first time which spread fear among young men who went to the river to swim.
Director of Al Diwaniyah Environment Directorate Haidar Aanaj told Alsumarianews that for the first time in the history of Al Diwaniyah a big crocodile was seen in the river. To that he also added that the environment conditions of Al DIwaniyah are not convenient for the presence of such a big fierce amphibian.
Aannaj called young men to stay away from swimming in the river water before getting precise information about this issue.
A big number of young men are heading to Diwaniyah River to swim because of the high temperature levels and because electricity is being cut off for long periods.
Hassanen Jalil a 19 years old young man told Alsumarianews, eyewitnesses who swim with us on a daily basis in the river said that they saw two big crocodiles in the river which spread fears among us and prevented us from swimming in the river.
“It seems that the Ministry of Electricity made an agreement with those two crocodiles to prevent us from swimming in the river after knowing that we swing to flee the high temperatures and the ongoing shortage in electricity” said Majed Abdullah another young man.
However, other citizens said that those two crocodiles might have fled from the personal zoos of some rich people who like to own fierce animals in their properties.
Al Diwaniyah River is one of Euphrates river ramifications; it enters Diwaniah after passing by Hella Province and heads afterwards to Muthna. The river water level decreased considerably during the last few years given the high rate of evaporation and because Turkey and Syria are taking larger quantities of water than their allocated part which affects Iraq’s share thereof.
It is to be noted that workers in Duhok Province killed in July 11 a crocodile that fled from Duhok Public Zoo since more than two years.
(You wouldn't really expect to see a Croc in Iraq...)
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