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Last week, a crocodile farmer was eaten alive by 40 of his reptiles after falling into their enclosure.

Luan Nam was trying to remove one of the crocs from a cage where it had laid eggs, but the crocodile attacked the stick he was holding, causing him to fall into the enclosure.

“Then other crocodiles pounced, attacking him until he was dead,” Mey Savry, police chief of Siem Reap commune, told AFP.

The reptiles apparently ripped the 72-year-old victim’s body to shreds, leaving the paddock soaked in blood after the freak accident that happened at 5AM last Friday.

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Savry said that Nam was covered in bite marks, and one of his arms had been bitten off and swallowed by one of the crocodiles.

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Photos from the scene show the crocodiles in the bloody enclosure, according to The Telegraph, with one photo even showing Nam’s shoe in a croc’s mouth.

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There are a number of crocodile farms around Siem Reap, Cambodia, which is home to the famous ruins of Angkor Wat. Nam was the president of the local crocodile farmers’ association and had been urged by his family to stop raising the animals.

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[sources:telegraph&mirror]