A crocodile attacked and killed a man who was under arrest for alleged
illegal logging in Myanmar, the country’s state-run newspaper reported
Sunday.

Myint Zaw was being transported by forest rangers in a boat in the
Ayeywarwaddy river delta when the crocodile knocked him out of the boat
and killed him, the Myanmar-language Kyemon daily reported.

Myint Zaw and three other men were arrested last month for possession of
mangrove trees believed to have been illegally cut from Meinmahla Kyun
Wildlife Sanctuary, southwest of the country’s biggest city, Yangon, the
paper said.

The men were being transferred to detention when the attack happened March
10, the paper said. No other details were available.

The wildlife reserve was established in 1994 and is inhabited by
endangered saltwater crocodiles that live in the mangrove swamps.