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Tuesday, June 5, 2018 –
3:23pm
A pastor has died after a crocodile mauled him
as he baptised believers in a lake in Ethiopia.
Protestant minister Docho Eshetu was conducting
a mass baptism on the shore of Lake Abaya, near the town of Arba
Minch, in the south-western part of the country, when the reptile
attacked him.
Local resident Ketema Kairo told the BBC’s Amharic-language service that the Sunday
afternoon ceremony had just begun when the incident occurred.
“He baptised the first person and he passed on
to another one,” he said. “All of a sudden, a crocodile jumped out
of the lake and grabbed the pastor.”
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Despite the best efforts of parishioners and bystanders, the
pastor was bitten on his legs, back and arms and could not be
saved.
Nearby fishermen used their nets to retrieve the
body before the crocodile could drag it further into the
lake.
Lake Abaya, one of Ethiopia’s largest lakes, “is known
to have a huge crocodile population”, according to Ethiopian news
site Borkena.
Despite a lack of state media coverage, news of
the gruesome accident spread rapidly after eyewitnesses shared
their accounts on social media, the site says.
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