This story is from May 29, 2020

Madhya Pradesh: Village boys drive away crocodile with barrage of stones, save woman

A bunch of village boys saved a 51-year-old woman from a crocodile’s death roll in MP’s Shivpuri district, hurling stones at it until it released its grip on her and swam away with part of her arm in its jaws.
Madhya Pradesh: Village boys drive away crocodile, save 51-year-old woman
Swaroopi Bai in hospital. A crocodile ripped off her part of her left arm
BHOPAL: A bunch of village boys saved a 51-year-old woman from a crocodile’s death roll in MP’s Shivpuri district, hurling stones at it until it released its grip on her and swam away with part of her arm in its jaws.
The woman lost her left hand below the wrist but will live. The croc attack took place by the Sindh River in Amola village, 40km from Shivpuri district headquarters, when Swaroopi Bai had gone to pluck watermelons near a small farm.
Thirsty, she walked to the river’s edge to have some water, unaware that a mugger was lying in ambush. As soon as she crouched, the croc struck. It clamped its jaws on her left hand and started dragging her into deeper water. Undaunted, Swaroopi fought back, screaming for help and hitting the croc repeatedly in the eyes with her right hand. Her son, 21-year-old Omkar, plunged into the water with a stick in hand but by then the crocodile had started its death roll. It was twisting around itself while swimming backwards, flailing the woman about like a rag doll.
Omkar hit it with the stick but it bounced off the croc’s thick hide. A group of children, playing nearby, came to the rescue. They unleashed a barrage of stones at the croc. With precision honed on bringing down mangoes from trees, they hit the crocodile repeatedly on its snout and eyes – enough for it to realise this human wasn’t worth the trouble. Besides, Swaroopi, too, had kept fighting.
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