Back-to-back typhoons flooded a crocodile farm in southern China’s Guangdong province, providing an escape for at least 75 crocodiles. Most are still at large.
Residents in the city’s southern Maonan district, a major freshwater aquaculture base that housed the crocodile farm, have been told to stay vigilant and avoid going out, especially keeping away from rivers, lakes and reservoirs, the newspaper reported.Videos posted to Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese platform, apparently showed crocodiles popping up their heads on a flooded road around a lake in Maoming.
Police, firefighters and emergency responders with underwater sonar equipment have been mobilized for the search, and multiple teams are patrolling on motorboats, yet “we are not quite sure where they are,” the officer said, adding that there were no casualty reports as of Tuesday morning. Paramilitary forces stationed in the area have received orders to shoot dead any crocodile that emerges from the deep-water zone, Southern Metropolis Daily, which also cited villagers who visited the farm in saying the smallest adult crocodiles there weigh at least 220 pounds. Warning signs have been set up around the perimeter of the inundated farms and cropland, the newspaper reported.
Maoming and the broader Guangdong province have been battered by two typhoons in two weeks, with Saola and Haikui wreaking havoc across Taiwan and southern China. Landslides caused by extreme downpours Sunday and Monday have killed at least seven people in the neighboring Guangxi region, state media
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