A crocodile killed an Indonesian man — so his village slaughtered nearly 300 crocodiles

To compensate for the death of a man in Indonesia after being attacked by a crocodile at a breeding farm in Indonesia, people killed 292 crocodiles using knifes, hammers and clubs, reported the Reuters. Pictures of a huge pile of the reptiles’ carcasses have been doing the rounds of the Internet, leaving many shocked to the core. Several people took to social media to condemn the brutal slaughter of the animals.

Nearly 300 crocodiles were slaughtered in revenge killings by a mob in Indonesia over the weekend.

The incident happened shortly after the funeral of a man in his 40s who himself was killed by a crocodile in the Indonesian state of West Papua.
The man was on a crocodile farm, probably looking for grass to feed his livestock, when he was attacked by one of the animals Friday, according to a statement from the head of Indonesia's Natural Resources Conservation Agency in West Papua, Basar Manullang, Reuters reported.

After he was buried Saturday, villagers stormed the farm and killed all the crocodiles there, Manullang said.

( Some of the hundreds of crocodiles, killed by angry locals after a man was killed in a crocodile attack, are burned by government authorities in Sorong regency, West Papua, Indonesia, July 16, 2018. )