BHOPAL: The Chambal riverbanks have seen more than their share of the wild, but rarely as bizarre as this. Suspecting that a crocodile had swallowed a seven-year-old boy in MP’s Sheopur, villagers captured the 13-footer, dragged it ashore, tied it up and tried to slit its stomach to rescue the child.
This led to a three-way stand-off all night, with villagers insisting that the boy was alive inside the croc and forest officials and police explaining it wasn’t possible. The child’s family members even called out his name, hoping he would respond from inside the reptile’s belly.
