A 13-year-old boy was killed by a crocodile in front of his horrified friends while trying to collect his football from a river in Indonesia.
Muhammad Syahputra Almanda was playing with his friends in a field next to their village in Jambi on Saturday.
The young schoolboy chased after the ball towards a nearby river, but as he bent down to scoop it up was snatched by a huge 13ft crocodile.
'He asked his friend to throw the ball into the water, and after it was thrown. He jumped in but he didn't resurface,' police said.
'Soon after, witnesses saw him in the jaws of a crocodile.'






