Sarthak Kanjilal & Sanjith Das
Port Blair, Aug 16: Once again an incident of deadly crocodile attack has been reported from South Andaman region. In this case a Home Guard, Abhijeet Ekka has been attacked by a saltwater crocodile on Saturday at around 2:40 p.m at Wandoor beach.
As per reports, the Home guard Jawan who is posted at District jail was swimming at Wandoor beach when this incident happened.
Eyewitnesses told Andaman Sheekha that when the crocodile attacked the Home Guard Jawan he repeatedly attacked the eyes of the crocodile, which is the key reason, he survived deadly attack.
As per report the victim has told police that the crocodile has attacked him repeatedly during which he got major injuries on his left thigh and right arm. Besides this he got serious cut marks on his neck and shoulders from the nails of the crocodile.
The crocodile bite on the left thigh of Abhijeet damaged a blood vessel, which resulted in profuse bleeding, but anyhow Abhijeet managed to survive the attack.
A police team immediately reached to the spot and took Abhijeet to Primary Health Centre Manglutan in police jeep from where he has been reffered to Port Blair’s G B Pant Hospital, where his treatments are on.
Sources told Andaman Sheekha that since morning the crocodile was seen in the beach following which police and forest officials posted at Wandoor beach brought all public out of sea.
“But after sometime another batch of nearly 50 people went inside the sea, ignoring the warning and when Police and forest officials warned them again only 30 came out of the sea, while 20 others continued to ignore warning and just then the attack took place,” said a police official who doesn’t want his name to be quoted.
In past several such incidents of Crocodile attack has been reported from various other tourist favourite beaches of A & N Islands, one of the victims was a tourist from New Jersey, Lauren Failla, who was killed by a saltwater crocodile while snorkeling in Neil Cove beach of Havelock Island in April 2010.
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