Manhood Shredded by Crocodile

(Marutaya Village, Zimbabwe) Last month, a 70-year-old local man, Jonah Maturure, had his manhood torn to shreds by a crocodile while wading across the rain-swollen Chivake River.

He told the Sunday News that he removed his trousers before getting into the river as he did not want it to get wet and was only left with his shirt and underwear.

He said he put the trousers, whose pockets had some money and his identity document, in the tomato box that he was carrying on his head and got into the river whose water was at chest level.

“I was not suspecting anything. I had earlier on crossed the river using the same crossing place. But when I was almost in the middle of the river I was attacked by a crocodile. It mauled a chunk of my buttocks before attacking my manhood tearing my testicles into shreds.

“The skin covering my manhood was partly torn but I quickly put my thumb (showing a heavily bruised but healing thumb) in its mouth to try and chock it after realising that I was going to lose my manhood. It then grabbed my hand and I could hear my bones cracking making some cacophony noise at the slightest bite.

“Realising that I was losing the battle, I let go of the box of tomatoes that I was carrying on my head and it fell into the river with a thud making some kind of noise. At that instant the crocodile released its grip on my hand and ran towards the noise. It probably thought I had fallen into the river and I escaped in pain, with blood flowing down my legs from the wounds where the chunks of flesh had been incised,” said Mr Maturure.

He said both his shirt and underwear were torn in the attack and the battle that ensued and when he got out of the water he was in his birthday suit with blood oozing uncontrollably from the ferocious attack wounds.

In considerable pain, Mr. Maturure is recovering at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH).