Man wakes to find 12-foot crocodile inside his home

Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Wildlife authorities were summoned to an Indian village where a local man woke up to find a massive crocodile inside his house.

Dasharath Madkami said an unusual sound woke him about 3 a.m. and he investigated to discover a 12-foot crocodile had invaded his home in a remote village in the state of Orissa.

Madkami alerted his neighbors, who worked together to capture the big croc and tie it to a tree.

Wildlife authorities were summoned to the village and they took the massive reptile to be relocated.

Officials said the croc likely wandered into the village from the Satiguda dam, located less than a mile from the settlement.

"There are some 30-40 crocodiles in the Satiguda dam. This one had perhaps slipped into the village, which is just a kilometer (.6 miles) away from the dam, to lay eggs," local forest official Sushant Nayak told the BBC.

The crocodile was released into the Balimela reservoir, 37 miles from the village.