Crocodiles on the run

Oct 22 2007

Marksmen cruised the rivers of north-eastern Thailand hunting for 11 crocodiles that slithered away from a flooded farm.

A total of 34 crocodiles escaped in the Non Sung district of Nakorn Ratchasima province after floodwaters inundated a commercial farm which raises the reptiles for their meat and skins.

Twenty-three crocodiles were later shot dead. The remaining 11 - some as big as 20ft long - were still at large.