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Gaza, Nov 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Gaza Strip police have caught a two-meter crocodile, who roamed the pipes of a sewer network for about two years, keeping residents in terror. "On Monday evening police forces managed to catch a crocodile hiding in sewers in the northern part of the Gaza Strip," a statement, posted on the website of the region's interior ministry, reads. The reptile, which apparently escaped from a local zoo, has previously managed to avoid traps and nets on several occasions. The hunt began after local residents complained to police, saying the crocodile killed their livestock and it might begin to attack humans as well. "It came as a baby and now it is huge and the more it grows the more dangerous it becomes for the residents of the area and their livestock," Rajab al-Ankah, head of the Northern Gaza Sewage Station, told Al-Jazeera. The channel quoted a Beit Lahia farmer as saying that the crocodile ate two of his goats when they were grazing near one of the sewage basins. --IANS/RIA Novosti rd/vm
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