EVER HEARD OF SUICIDE BY CROCODILE?

Suicide by...crocodile?

A missing South African farm worker, upset after a fight with his girlfriend, may have committed suicide by wading into crocodile infested waters, local police said.

David Lubisi, 40, has not been seen since April 7, when he allegedly told a co-worker that he was going to kill himself by walking out into the Lepelle river, London's Daily Mail reports.

"He was last seen heading towards the water and never turned up after that," Police Sergeant Malesela Makgopa told reporters Monday. "We believe he may have been having domestic problems with his girlfriend and that he wanted to commit suicide."

"If that is true then it was a particularly horrible and painful way to die."

His plan may have been horribly successful: Lubisi's employer at the Balule Camp outside Phalaborwa told police that a neighbor spotted a crocodile with a human leg visible in its jaws, the Sowetan reports.

Jesper Kehlet, a Dutch national and the farm's owner, told police that his employees explained to him that Lubisi was drunk at the time he went missing.

But Lubisi's sister insists something is fishy about tale of what happened in the river.

"I think the police must look at this very closely," Esther Lubisi, who described her brother as a religious man, told the South African newspaper. "My brother was a sober man. I insist that he did not drink alcohol."

The primary suspect remains a Nile River Crocodile - a species that inhabits the region.

It can grow up to 20 feet in length and may be responsible for upward of two hundred deaths a year in Africa, according to experts.

But police say they won't yet rule out foul play until a body is recovered.


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