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[passenger]

Costa Rica soccer player eaten by crocodile in front of horrified onlookers.
August 4, 2023

Teammates, family and friends gathered in a shocked community in Costa Rica this week to pay their respects to a soccer player who was killed on July 30 by a crocodile after he jumped into a river known to be a habitat for the reptiles.

Jesús "Chucho" Alberto López Ortiz, 29, who played for the local Deportivo Río Cañas soccer club, died Saturday after jumping from a bridge into the Cañas River in Santa Cruz, according to Costa Rican newspaper The Tico Times, which cited a local police official.
The newspaper said witnesses reported seeing López Ortiz's body being dragged underwater by the large reptile.
Costa Rican police officials shot and killed the crocodile to recover Ortiz's remains, a Costa Rican Red Cross spokesperson told the local news outlet.

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[MrDawn]

This is terrible. I've heard of this sort of thing happening before where people purposely throw themselves into crocodile infested waters as a suicidal act.

 

[passenger]

This is terrible. I've heard of this sort of thing happening before where people purposely throw themselves into crocodile infested waters as a suicidal act.

I wonder if that's what happened; or if he was taking a dare, or just going for a recreational swim. I think maybe we'll never know.