Elderly woman survives croc attack in Melaka


MELAKA: An elderly woman from Negri Sembilan underwent an agonising experience for the first time in 30 years of collecting prawns after she was dragged by a saltwater crocodile along the banks of Sungai Timun.

Duyong assemblyman Datuk Mohd Noor Helmy Abdul Halim said that he went to visit the woman, in her 60s, at Tuanku Ja'afar Hospital (HTJ) in Seremban last week after he heard the woman was attacked by the reptile while looking for prawns.

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