Local residents looking at the carcasses of hundreds of crocodiles from a farm after they were killed by angry locals following the death of a man in a attack — BBC JAKARTA, July 16 (BBC): A mob of villagers has killed nearly 300 crocodiles at a sanctuary for the animals in the Indonesian province of West Papua.
The slaughter was in retaliation for a local man thought to have been killed by one animal from the site.
Officials and police said they were not able to stop the attack and may now press charges.
The killing of a protected species is a crime that carries a fine or imprisonment in Indonesia.
The local villager was killed on Friday morning while gathering vegetables on the crocodile farm's breeding sanctuary.
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