A crocodile emerged from a river with a woman in its jaws after dragging her beneath the water and mauling her to death.
Tarti Kolengsusu, 43, had been gathering water spinach from the Air Biak River in Indonesia with her friends when the huge reptile latched onto her leg on Wednesday.
The terrified mother screamed for help during the attack, waving her arms as she desperately battled to stay above the water.
She grabbed her friends’ hands and they tried to pull her back onto the riverbank, but the powerful beast yanked her from their grasp.
Her friends managed to escape and ran to their village to raise the alarm, but by the time rescuers and local residents rushed to the scene Tarti was dead in the beast’s jaws.
Footage shows the predator seemingly taunting the onlookers as it swam near land while holding the villager’s lifeless body.
It continued circling the river, weaving up and down with the woman’s long hair flowing eerily underwater as people are heard screaming and shouting in horror.
Locals were only able to collect her body around two hours later after the crocodile released her.
