A Cambodian man was killed by about 40 crocodiles on Friday after falling into their enclosure on his family's reptile farm, according to the police.
When a crocodile grabbed the stick Luan Nam, 72, was using as a goad and drew him inside the cage where it had deposited eggs. Nam was trying to free the crocodile.
After shredding his body to bits and covering the concrete enclosure at the farm in Siem Reap in blood, the main group of reptiles attacked him.
“While he was chasing a crocodile out of an egg-laying cage, the crocodile attacked the stick, causing him to fall into the enclosure,” Mey Savry, police chief of Siem Reap commune, told AFP.
“Then other crocodiles pounced, attacking him until he was dead,” he said, adding that the remains of Luan Nam’s body were covered with bite marks.
He claimed that one of the crocodiles chewed off and swallowed one of the man's arms.
The commune chief May Sameth told AFP that Luan Nam, who served as the president of the neighbourhood crocodile farmers' group, may now sell his herd after being persuaded for years to cease keeping reptiles.
The police head reported that a two-year-old child strayed into her family's reptile farm in the same village in 2019 and was killed and eaten by crocodiles.
Around Siem Reap, the city that serves as the entrance to the renowned Angkor Wat temples, there are a lot of crocodile farms.
In addition to the commerce in their young, reptiles are kept for their eggs, skins, and flesh.
