A crocodile attacked and killed a woman working on a palm oil plantation on the island of Borneo in central Indonesia, local police said.
The 44-year-old woman was working with a colleague in the province of West Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, when she was attacked by a crocodile, which dragged her into a ditch.
The man tried in vain to snatch his colleague from the animal's claws, before alerting the Ketapang police.
"The victim's body was found after 90 minutes of searching," while the crocodile still had human remains in its jaws, local police chief Bagus Tri Baskoro said in a statement late on Thursday.
The immense island of Borneo is shared between Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia, having vast expanses of jungle with a wide variety of animals. But palm oil plantations and logging projects are encroaching heavily on rainforest areas, threatening wildlife.
In Indonesia, home to several crocodile species, attacks on humans are frequent.
In August, a crocodile killed a 54-year-old woman who was bathing in a river in the Maluku Islands (east).
In 2018, in Papua, Indonesia's easternmost province, an angry mob slaughtered around 300 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a resident by the reptiles.
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