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JAKARTA - Guards in a national park in Indonesia have started a search for a Komodo dragon which attacked and killed an 8-year-old boy when he was going to the toilet in a bush. The fatal attack on a human by a giant lizard is the first in 33 years and happened Saturday on the island of Komodo, according to a guard of the park.
“The Komodo bit him on his waist and tossed him viciously from side to side,” said Heru Rudiharto, the spokesman. “A fishermen, who just happened to be the boy’s uncle, threw rocks at the lizard until it let the boy go and fled. The boy died from massive bleeding half an hour later.” Komodo dragons, the worlds largest lizards, are only found in the wild on a few islands in Nusa Tenggra. As little as 2,000 are still alive.
Rudiharto said that the lizards live side-by-side with the people on the islands. “Perhaps the lizards’ natural prey has decreased because we are entering the dry season and there has been too much deer hunting,” he said. The dragons, which are agile and have perfect smell, can grow as large as three meters and weigh around 90 kilograms. They regularly kill prey like pigs and small deer.
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