Karachi:
The Sindh Wildlife Department has launched an investigation into the reports of a crocodile attack against a woman in a channel that emerges from Sukkur’s flood.
According to publications on social networks, the alleged incident occurred in the Saleh Pat area along the Nara channel, where a crocodile allegedly dragged a woman to deep waters. According to the reports, her husband managed to rescue her.
After the reports, the Silvestre department ordered its Sukkur team to visit the site, inspect the channel section, meet with the affected family, collect the medical report and the details of the treatment, and present findings with recommendations.
A team, led by the attached conservative, the Sikkur Wildlife Division and Wildlife Inspector of the Imam Bakhsh Samoon area visited the emergency room of the Sukkur Civil Hospital, but it was informed that the family had left without informing the hospital staff. The department has repeatedly expressed concern about illegal settlements and cabin constructions along the Nara channel, a known habitat of the Native Sindh swamp crocodile.
Worldwide, there are 18 species of crocodiles, six of them in Asia. It is known that Marsh’s crocodile of Sindh, smaller and generally less aggressive than Nile and salt water species, feeds mainly on carrion and becomes aggressive only when its territory is interfered.
Experts say that the species prefers the waters of slow movement and spends much of the day enjoying or in burrows, surviving months without food if necessary. Slow flow stretching and outdoor banks of the Nara channel have long been a key habitat.
In the past, the similar reports of fatal crocodile attacks from the area have emerged on social networks, but then they were discovered that they were false.
