Grandfather, M Yunus, torn in half and has head eaten by crocodile while bathing in Indonesia

A grandfather who told his wife he was going to bathe, was torn apart and had his head eaten by a crocodile in the river just behind their house.

The man, identified as M Yunus, 68, from the Aceh province in Indonesia, was on the banks of the Biryulac River when he was attacked and bitten in half.

His wife, Dimiam, went to check on her husband hours after he left the house and could only find his mobile phone and clothes on the riverbank before calling the police for help.

Rescue teams scoured the river but failed to find the elderly man’s body and assumed he may have drowned.

The search continued until staff from the regional disaster management agency found the remains of the body that had been washed downriver.

The Daily Mail reports the remains of his body were collected by rescue workers and taken home for a funeral but his upper body, head and arms are yet to be found.

Local police said in a statement: “Suspecting that her husband had drowned, the victim’s wife then informed her son who lives in Langsa.”

The search was ended on the morning of August 30, when East Aceh Regional Disaster Management Agency personnel finally discovered Yunus’s corpse drifting downstream around a mile away from where he had left his clothes.

He was reportedly caught in a wooden branch and the entire upper half of his body was missing.

Farm workers found a massive dead crocodile suspected of killing Yunus along the riverbank the following day.

A shaken resident, Abdullah, said: “We thought it was the crocodile that ate Yunus, so we cut it open but we found no human body parts inside.

“People from Bhom Lama and Paya Meuligo villages now feel worried and reluctant to carry out their activities as usual around the river.”