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The attacked species is however protected in Indonesia. This did not stop a crowd from attacking crocodiles on a livestock farm in Sorong, Indonesian Papua, on Saturday (July 14th).
In all, 292 reptiles were attacked by a hundred angry residents who feel that the farm is too close to their homes. For the most part baby crocodiles but also adults measuring two meters long, almost all the reptiles found there, according to the authorities.
It was the death of one of their neighbors that unleashed this unleashing of violence. The man accidentally entered the crocodile enclosure to search for grbad for his cows, authorities and animal welfare officials said. This 48-year-old man was bitten on one leg before being mortally hit by a violent tail stroke of one of the crocodiles, a protected species in Indonesia, according to the same sources.
A mbadacre despite the agreement with the family
Members of the family of the deceased and other inhabitants of this district of Sorong, a port city of just over 200,000 inhabitants (east), then went see the police to complain about the presence of this farm too close to them in a residential area. They were told that the owner of the premises agreed to compensate the family of the victim.
"We reached an agreement with the family of the victim and sent our condolences" said the director of the local animal protection agency, Bbadar Manulang.
But several hundred residents of the neighborhood, angry, then broke into the farm armed with knives, machetes and shovels .
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