A lakeside baptism service in Ethiopia was struck by tragedy after a crocodile attacked and killed the vicar. An 80-strong congregation looked on in horror as the reptile struck at Docho Eshete, a protestant clergyman in the town of Arba Minch, while he conducted a mass baptism in the shallows of Lake Abaya on Sunday. “He baptised the first person and he passed on to another one,” a local resident at the service, Ketema Kairo, told the BBC’s Amharic language service. Fishermen threw out their nets to block the crocodile from taking Mr Docho into deeper water, but by the time they extricated him he was already dead. “They only managed to get his dead body,” Eiwnetu Kanko, a police officer from Arba Minch, 300 miles south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, said.

Source: Ethiopian News June 05, 2018 16:07 UTC