By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK
VILLAGERS in a remote Gulf province village watched in horror as a crocodile snatched a girl from her mother on the banks of a river and killed her.
Police said the attacked occurred at Samoa village in Kikori district last Friday.
The girl was making sago by the riverside with her mother when the 3m crocodile, suddenly surfaced from the river and struck.
It gripped the eight-year-old girl firmly in its jaw as the mother fought valiantly, but in vain, to pull her away to safety.
“Villagers reported that the crocodile disappeared into the waters, then surfaced again with the girl still trapped in its jaws. It then dived and disappeared,” a spokesman for police said.
He said the girl and her mother were making sago about 8m from the river when the crocodile attacked.
“The mother quickly grabbed her daughter’s hand and began a tug of war with the crocodile. But her efforts were in vain and the croc dragged the girl into the river.”
A search party from the village began combed the river in the hope of finding the girl’s remains but called it off last Sunday afternoon after retrieving only the pieces of the girl’s clothes and some body parts.

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