Jajpur: Panic spread through a riverside village in Odisha’s Jajpur district after a saltwater crocodile dragged a 59-year-old woman into the Kharasrota river on Monday afternoon.

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According to sources, the crocodile attacked the woman, identified as Soudamini Mahala of Kantia village under Bari block, at around 3.30 pm when she was washing clothes and utensils in the river. In the viral video, the reptile is dragging the woman downstream with shocked villagers shouting helplessly from a nearby bridge. “We raised an alarm and tried to save her. But the reptile dragged her deep into the water,” said a villager, adding that her husband works in Kolkata.

A live video went viral from Jajpur, Bari area, where a crocodile dragg

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