13-feet-long ‘killer’ crocodile captured near Vadodara's Waghodia

VADODARA: Two days after it killed another woman, the 13-feet-long crocodile that made Dev River in Waghodia taluka of Vadodara a very scary story, was finally rescued late on Saturday night.
The killer reptile has been handed over to the forest department much to the locals’ relief as over the past few years, the giant crocodile’s preying on humans had kept the river almost out of bounds for the people.
“There were several attempts to rescue it in the past too, but the reptile remained elusive. It would attack the locals and disappear in the river. We laid a trap for the past two days and managed to capture the crocodile,” said Hemant Vadhwana, a wildlife activist.
Two days ago, the crocodile had attacked Mangiben, who was washing clothes near the river bank in Mahadevpura village. Before passers-by could intervene, the reptile dragged the woman deep inside the river. Her husband along with locals began hunting for the woman amid the croc-infested waters and could finally locate her body after more than an hour’s search. Vadhwana claimed that in March this year the same crocodile had also killed another 70-year-old woman who had entered the river to wash clothes.
Victim Javra Parmar was standing in knee-deep water in the river, when the crocodile caught hold of her legs and began dragging her.
Luckily, some locals spotted Parmar and jumped in the river to save her. Two locals who came within the crocodile’s reach tried to scare it away. The crocodile then let go off the woman and disappeared in the dark waters.
Parmar was rushed to a hospital with grievous injuries, but she succumbed during treatment.
Activists said that crocodiles usually attack women, who normally sit by the riverbanks to wash clothes, mistaking them for some small animal.