A swim in the river turned into a near-death experience for a 14-year-old boy in Gujarat after a crocodile bit his right leg and tried to pull him inside the deep water. Sandeep Kamlesh Parmar and his friends were out for a swim in a river near Gunbhakhari village in the Sabarkantha district which is around 200 km away from Vadodara.
Sandeep screamed for help after the crocodile sunk its teeth deep into the boy¡¯s right leg. His friends rushed to his rescue, throwing stones at the crocodile. It was this that made the creature let go of this foot.
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Sandeep¡¯s friends dragged him to safety and called an ambulance. The boy was admitted to the civil hospital at Khedbrambha town for medical treatment. "After providing medical help here, we sent him to the district civil hospital in Himatnagar for better treatment," Dr Ashwin Gadhvi told PTI. Sandeep¡¯s bones below his right knee were severely damaged.
The boy¡¯s father thanked his friends for help.
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In a similar incident in 2015, Diwalinen Vankar, a 58-year-old woman, came to the rescue of her daughter who was attacked by a crocodile while she was bathing. The woman on seeing a crocodile bite her daughter¡¯s right leg, caught hold of her hand and hit the crocodile¡¯s jaw with a wooden bat she was using to wash the clothes.
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