A crocodile at the compound of a police station in Dili. East Timor's rate of croc attacks spiked between 1996 and 2014, jumping from fewer than one per year to over a dozen annually. - AFP
Lospalos, East Timor (Nov 26, AFP): Mario Da Cruz could only watch in horror as a small army of crocodiles killed a child on an East Timor beach -- another victim of the tiny nation's soaring rate of attacks.
Such incidents have jumped more than 20-fold over the past two decades with an average of one person a month falling prey to the ferocious reptiles, though not all are fatal.
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