Vadodara: Crocodile rescued from 25-feet-deep trench

A workforce of rescuers pulled out a 12-feet-long crocodile from a 25-feet-deep trench at Asoj village close to Vadodara on Saturday after native residents alerted the forest officers concerning the mugger being trapped within the under-construction drainage line.
The crocodile, estimated to weigh 400 kg, was pulled up with the assistance of a hydraulic excavator machine.
Hemant Vadhwana, who has a workforce of rescuers to assist him, reached the spot on Saturday morning to rescue the reptile.“I knew that if we attempt to pull it out with tying ropes, we could injure or strangulate it. So, we decided to use the hydraulic excavator. The crocodile was already injured as it had broken its snout perhaps during the fall into the trench,” Vadhwana stated including that since it’s the season of migration of crocodiles forward of their mating and nesting interval in summer time, the motion of crocodiles is frequent
The reptile is at present recuperating on the Vadodara social forestry division.