3 year-old, Lubelihle Nyoni has been eaten by a crocodile on the banks of the Zambezi River in Hwange, northern Zimbabwe, MSN reports.
3-year old girl eaten by crocodile
The girl becomes the third person in her family, including her grandfather and uncle to be killed by a crocodile.
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Reports say Nyoni was playing with her 8-year-old friend Mawili Reno when the crocodile attacked.
According to eye witness and relative Margi Reno:
"I was doing something some few metres from the river when I heard screams before I lifted up my eyes and saw a big crocodile snatching Luba from the banks, where they were bathing. I froze for a moment as my mind could not comprehend what I had seen, but then I recovered and rushed to Mawili, who seemed frozen to the spot."
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This episode will be the third crocodile attack on juveniles reported in just over two months in Zimbabwe.
In February, a 17-year-old boy herding cattle was reportedly snatched by a crocodile in the Mutirikwi River in south-eastern Zimbabwe while a 16-year-old girl was taken by a crocodile in the Runde River, also in southern Zimbabwe, on New Year's Day.
Little Nyoni's body is yet to be recovered.
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