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A crocodile killed a man while he was retrieving golf balls from a dam called Lake Panic at South Africa’s flagship wildlife reserve, officials said Thursday.

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The crocodile grabbed 29-year-old Jacques van der Sandt in its jaws on Wednesday night and disappeared under the water at Skukuza Golf Course next to a staff residential area within the park boundaries, according to Kruger National Park officials.

Rangers killed the crocodile after a two-hour search following the attack, according to a park statement. It said the body of Van der Sandt, the son of a park employee, was recovered with tooth marks on the back and front but did not have any “mutilation.” The crocodile was 3.9 metres long, according to a report in Lowvelder newspaper.

“The animal was doing what naturally comes to them; hunting for food and unfortunately a life was lost in the process,” a SANParks ecologist, Danny Govender, said in the SANParks statement.