The Seige Of Beihai Park Pool

His village besieged by a bloodthirsty and merciless horde armed with catapults, one brave saurian led a counter-attack that routed the enemy:

A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child's remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region, by investigators looking for the missing child. Investigators confirmed that human remains found in the reptile were that of the student, the report said.

The child, surnamed Liu, disappeared Friday after Liu and three other children climbed over the fence around a pool in the park that had been used to stage crocodile shows, Xinhua said.

"The children shot the animals with catapults and beat them with wooden sticks," the agency said. "One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu's clothes and dragged him into water, where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles."

In the end, his courage cost him his life as a reorganized and reinforced foe arrived to exact a terrible revenge. But even as the executioners approached, their feet shuffling like muffled dinner bells, he went forth to meet them.