Mansur, an eight- (or nine-) year-old boy, was mauled to death by a Komodo dragon in east­ern Indo­ne­sia on 2 June. He was with his uncle mending fish­ing nets (or reliev­ing him­self in a bush) on Komodo Island – one of the larg­est in the Komodo nat­ional park – when the dragon att­acked him. It clawed his right leg, bit him in the stom­ach with its serr­ated teeth and shook him in an att­empt to break his neck. His uncle and other men pelted the creat­ure with rocks until it re­leased the boy, who was uncons­cious and bleed­ing heav­ily. Before a boat could be arr­anged to take him to a doctor, he had died of his injur­ies.