AN INDONESIAN grandad was savagely mauled to death while going for a swim by a crocodile just metres from his home.
M Yunus, 68, was in the Peureulak River on August 29 when the beast ripped him in half, leaving just his clothes and phone behind.
But his wife Dimyam, 64, worried he’d drowned when he failed to return home in a few hours.
She went to the river to find his clothes and mobile phone on the banks – with no sign of his body.
Dimyam called on her family to help in their village in the East Aceh Regency, Aceh province, and called the cops.
Rescuers worked tirelessly to scour the river until the next day when they found his corpse drifting downstream around a mile from where his clothes were recovered.
M Yunus is thought to have been caught in a wooden branch and he was tragically left without his upper body.
His remains – only half of his body – were taken home for a funeral but his upper body, head and arms are yet to be found.
Cops suspect the poor man lost half his body to a crocodile who devoured him while lurking in the water.
Local farmers spotted a croc along the same riverbank on August 31 and believe they’ve located the nasty predator that culled the granddad.
They said it was lying lifeless in the undergrowth at the edge of a palm oil plantation.
Shaken resident Abdullah, said: “We thought it was the crocodile that ate Yunus, so we cut it open but we found no human body parts inside.
“People from Bhom Lama and Paya Meuligo villages now feel worried and reluctant to carry out their activities as usual around the river.”
Iptu Andi Ananta Grilya Utama, Ranto Peureulak Police Chief, said in a statement: “Suspecting that her husband had drowned, the victim’s wife then informed her son who lives in Langsa.”
His death is just one in a tragic string of crocodile attacks that have devastated the country.
The Indonesian archipelago is home to 14 types of crocodiles and many large and violent breeds flourish in the region’s tropical climate.
Experts suspect that crocs have been driven further inland closer to villages due to overfishing which has thrusted their natural diet into farmland.
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