A father helplessly watched on as his 10-year-old daughter was snatched and killed by a crocodile in Indonesia.
The pair and the youngster's brother had been hunting for turtles in the East Nusatenggara province when the girl, Juraida, was dragged in to the water by a giant saltwater crocodile.
Speaking to the Jakarta Post Indonesian official Viktor Mado Waton said 'Juraida was seized when she was in about half a metre of water at the river’s mouth.''Her father and brother could only watch helplessly.'
A rescue team was later deployed to the scene only to discover a dress and a hair ribbon on the sand, near the sight of the incident.Her body has yet to be found.
Local residents had already told officials they had seen several crocodiles sun-bathing at the river mouth a few days before the incident.
And last month a boy was killed by a crocodile in the same river whilst villagers have also reported a loss of livestock.
The salt water crocodile is the largest of all living reptiles and is more commonly found in Australia, the eastern coast of India and parts of Southeast Asia.
Although, on average, there are just two fatal attacks reported per year in recent years there have been attacks close to the latest incident in Borneo, Sumatra and Myanmar
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