Video shows giant 11-foot crocodile carrying naked dead man through Mexican lagoon where it is 'expressly forbidden to go swimming'

Video shows giant 11-foot crocodile carrying naked dead man through Mexican lagoon where it is 'expressly forbidden to go swimming'

A shocking video of a man swimming in crocodile infested waters has been released showing him being violently dragged under the water by a large crocodile and killed as local bystanders stand helpless. The man claimed to have supernatural powers over the crocs and that he would not be harmed. 

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This is the shocking moment a huge crocodile drags a lifeless man's body in its jaws after he had ignored warnings not to go swimming due to the presence of reptiles in a notorious lagoon in northeastern Mexico state of Tamaulipas.

Visitors had gathered to watch turtles swim at the Laguna del Carpintero in the city of Tampico but were horrified to see the 11-foot crocodile swimming past them with the man's body in its jaws on Thursday.

Local police said the man, who has not been named, had ignored warnings signs posted at the park advising people not to go swimming when he was attacked.

The man's lifeless body was then seen clamped in the crocodile's jaws as it swam near an observation platform used by people to watch turtles at the lagoon.

Police were called and discovered that the crocodile had taken the body into a sewer.

The police said the body was of a man believed to be in his 20s.

Local firefighters discovered the animal and the man beneath a manhole a block away from the park in the Tampico neighborhood of Volantín, Mexican newspaper Proceso reported.

It took an hour for the first responders to remove the metal sewage cover before they were able to tie a rope around the crocodile's mouth and pulled him out. They later proceeded to remove the man's body from the drainage system.

The lagoon is renowned for its crocodile attacks, with a number of people falling victim to the predators. 

The incident took place two weeks after a Fernando Martínez fought a crocodile for nearly 25 minutes after the reptile bit his eight-year-old daughter María Martínez and tried to pull her under a lagoon in the Tamaulipas town of Altamira.

Fernando Martínez was fishing and María Martínez was standing over the edge of the lake when the reptile attacked her the afternoon of August 3.

'I was fighting with the crocodile for about 25 minutes, several times he pulled my daughter to submerge her,' he recalled in an interview with digital news outlet Tamaulipas Express. 'I tried to open his snout so that he would release her, he bit her back and one arm, at one point the animal needed to breathe well and it was like that he let her go, I took the opportunity to take get her off.'

In June, a drunken man was nearly dragged by a crocodile into a lagoon in the Gulf state of Tabasco after he attacked a reptile's egg nest. 

In June, a woman was killed while she was reportedly washing clothes by the shore at the same Tampico lagoon. 

Shocked onlookers saw the crocodile swimming with the woman's dead body in its jaws.  

In October 2020, a crocodile chased a man swimming in the lagoon before pulling him underwater and killing him. 

The unnamed man, believed to be in his 50s or 60, reportedly ignored a sign warning people not to swim in the area.