{"id":4487,"date":"2018-06-06T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2018-06-06T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:10:29","slug":"crocodile-kills-pastor-during-lake-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/06\/crocodile-kills-pastor-during-lake-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile Kills Pastor During Lake Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A crocodile has killed a Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in southern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in Arba Minch town&#8217;s Merkeb Tabya district.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and police told BBC Amharic a crocodile leapt from the water during the baptism and attacked him.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Docho died after being bitten on his legs, back and hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He baptised the first person and he passed on to another one. All of a sudden, a crocodile jumped out of the lake and grabbed the pastor,&#8221; local resident Ketema Kairo told the BBC<\/p>\n<p>Despite huge efforts, fishermen and residents could not save pastor Docho, policeman Eiwnetu Kanko said.<\/p>\n<p>They used fishing nets to prevent the crocodile from taking the pastor&#8217;s body into the lake.<\/p>\n<p>The crocodile escaped.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crocodile has killed a Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in southern Ethiopia. Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in Arba Minch town&#8217;s Merkeb Tabya district. Residents and police told BBC Amharic a crocodile leapt from the water during the baptism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":4488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}