A baby crocodile was reportedly murdered by enraged villagers near Sindh’s Mirpurkhas district on Tuesday morning.
Residents of Mureed Khan Marri village, which is located 12 kilometres from the city on Khaan Road, said that the crocodile attacked a goat in their village.
“It [the reptile] murdered our goat,” a villager remarked. He went on to say, “We murdered it with an axe.”
The locals can be seen bringing the lizard tied with a rope to another village in a video obtained by The Express Tribune. “We’ll give the body to a landlord and be paid for it,” the man stated.
“There is no awareness among the local people about the worth of wildlife around,” Muhammad Hasham Shar, a local journalist from Mirpurkhas, told The Express Tribune.
Shar, criticising the behaviour of the Sindh Wildlife Department (SWD), said that officials were not taking adequate action despite the slaughter of innocent animals. He noted, “This is not the only event in Mirpurkhas.”
