KUCHING: Rescuers in Bintangor think they have recovered the body of a man who went missing in a river of an oil palm plantation, believed to be a victim of a croc attack.
State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) assistant operations director Tiong Ling Hii said fragments of skeletons believed to be those of Yosep Tesu, from Indonesia, were found in the stomach of the 14-ft long, two-ft wide reptile captured on the eighth day of the search and rescue (SAR) operation.
“The reptile was captured after the culling operation by the search team comprising the Bomba, police, Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) and the plantation estate workers at Sungai Starba.
“The team came across another lifeless crocodile at a river some five kilometres away for the plantation estate earlier on.
“The reptile was dissected and several pieces of human skeletons were found in its abdomen,” he said when contacted.
He also said that the victim was not an employee the plantation estate, but had come to visit a friend employed there.
