WOMAN SURVIVED FROM CROCODILE ATTACK

TNI News Service (TNS)

Webdesk, TNI Bhubaneshwar, 02nd August, 2015: Day before yesterday, a woman from Odisha was escaped from a deadly crocodile attack. Sabitri Samal, the 37-year-old woman from Singiri village under Rajkanika police station limits has shown exemplary courage in staving off an attacking crocodile by a cooking bowl and cooking stick turned into life saving weapons. Sabitri was washing utensils in a waterbody. She got very little time to react to the intruder’s attack. Samal said. ”It was a miraculous escape. The reptile pounced on me and dragged me to water. I was about to be completely dragged into the water when I hit the croc on its forehead and eye… The animal slowly released me. I acted in the spur of moment as I had taken it for granted that the animal would devour me,” she recalled. The attack occurred outside the Bhitarkanika National Park limits. Since past two months, man-crocodile conflict has reached alarming proportions in villages located on the periphery of the Bhitarkanika National Park. Already 2 people have been killed and 7 have been injured. However, forest personnel are saying that knowingly or unknowingly people are intruding into reptiles’ area.