Locals were left horrified after a killer crocodile was seen surfacing with the body of a housewife in its jaws after they heard screaming before the animal put the woman in a 'death roll'. Nurhawati Zihura, 46, was washing her feet in the seawater next to her coastal village in North Sumatra, Indonesia, when she pounced on by the 13 feet reptile. Shocked locals heard her screams but could only watch as the beast thrashed her body in a haunting death roll to disorientate her.
The crocodile then dragged away the mother-of-four as she disappeared below the surface close to the Deaa Orahili Beach in the Pulau-Pulau Batu district of South Nias Regency. And a few hours later the predator was seen again as it emerged from the water clutching the woman's body in its jaws.
Images show how locals threw dead chickens into the water to distract the crocodile and make it release the body. CPR was attempted on Ms Zihura but she could not be saved. The crocodile was later caught and shot dead by worried locals. Resident Agustinus, 40, said: "I saw the crocodile attacking Nurhawati on the surface of the water. We shouted but it would not release her. It was a terrible sight, worse than any of the scenes of hell. Her blood was spilling into the water.
"Later on, the crocodile appeared with her body in its mouth. We went out in boats and fed chicken to crocodile, so it would eat that instead of her." Fendi, one of victim's relatives, said she had ventured into the shallows to wash her feet as she had been feeling unwell.
