A boy went missing after he was attacked by a crocodile, police said, the second such attack in the area in two weeks.
The 10-year-old boy jumped into a river in West Kalimantan province on Borneo – one of the world’s most biodiverse islands and which the country shares with Malaysia and Brunei – on Tuesday, when a 4m-long crocodile attacked him, said a friend.
The friend alerted the boy’s father, who searched for his son’s body in the river using a speedboat, but he remains missing.
“Currently, the search-and-rescue team and local people are still searching for the victim. Please pray so he will be found soon,” local police chief Rachmatul Isani Fachri said yesterday.
Another boy went missing in the same village after a crocodile attacked him while bathing, according to his uncle who witnessed the attack, police said on Feb 7.
The search for six-year-old Cristian Ricardo ended after seven days and he is now presumed dead. — AFP
