This is the shocking moment a grandfather in Indonesia was bitten by a rescued crocodile that locals believed was tame.<\/p>\n
The unnamed pensioner and other tourists had visited the ‘lucky’ reptile that was saved from a flood last week and kept at a local theme park for devotees to make offerings.<\/p>\n
Believing the crocodile was docile, the elderly man reached out to offer some food – only for the predator to viciously latch onto his arm and yank him into the water.<\/p>\n
Footage shows terrified onlookers screaming as the beast thrashed the old man around in its jaws before letting go at the Cimory Dairyland centre.<\/p>\n
Firefighters later arrived to take the elderly man to a hospital with a severely injured arm in South Sulawesi on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Onlooker Siti Aisyah said: ‘The grandfather was bitten by a crocodile when he wanted to give him food. The residents immediately evacuated him and he was rushed to a hospital because his hand was badly injured.’<\/p>\n
The local fire department chief Hasanuddin said the animal was caught in a flooded residential area on February 12 before being kept at the Cimory tourist attraction, which also includes mini-windmills, dairy animals and farming exhibitions.<\/p>\n
Bosses had hoped that locals would visit in order to give donations to the croc. However, they have now let the animal be released by wildlife workers.<\/p>\n
Hasanuddin said: ‘When we arrived, residents were already crowded at the location and directed us to the victim, so the evacuation process was quick.<\/p>\n