CANCUN, Mexico – A 31-year-old man from Tlaxcala, a state in central Mexico, died over the weekend when a crocodile pulled him under in the Bojorquez Lagoon near the hotel in the Caribbean resort of Cancun, police said.
Marco Antonio Sanchez Fernandez was drunk when he went for a swim on Saturday, encountering the crocodile.
Sanchez Fernandez and another person went for a swim in the lagoon around 6:00 p.m. Saturday in the Punta Cancun district, ignoring signs posted to warn the public of the presence of crocodiles.
The two-meter (6.5-foot) crocodile heard the swimmers and slithered into the water.
Passersby and police patrolmen shouted at the swimmers to get out of the lagoon, but only one of them did so, officials said, adding that when the other swimmer tried to get out, the croc grabbed him.
Sanchez Fernandez’s body was found around 6:00 a.m. on Sunday near where the crocodile grabbed him its jaws.
No relatives have stepped forward to identify the victim, but police determined the man’s name from identification found on the body.
Sanchez Fernandez drowned and his body has bite wounds typical of an attack by a large crocodile, the coroner’s office said.
“It did not eat him, it dragged him until he drowned, there is no detachment of any extremity, the body is intact,” the Quintana Roo state police said.
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