Crocodile kills man looking for crabs


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 14 Feb 2019

MIRI (Bernama): An Indonesian oil palm worker is believed to have been killed by a crocodile while out searching for crabs at a river mouth in Ladang Segi Pakatan Niah here at 1pm on Wednesday (Feb 13).

Miri District Deputy Police Chief Supt Mohd Sabri Zainol said the victim, Muh Tahir Majid Syam, 40, had gone out with his nephew Muhammad Arfian Putra Effendy, 24, to look for crabs, and they broke up and searched at two separate locations.

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