A Mexican family watched in horror as their beloved dog was snatched by a crocodile and dragged away to its death.
Incredible footage of the incident features the cries and screams of a child watching as the reptile swoops to clasp the dog in its powerful jaws.
Earlier in the video, a man on the bank of the river had tossed a rope around the crocodile - and once the dog had been captured, he tried to drag them both back to shore.
However that was to no avail - and the crocodile evaded the man's best efforts to capture it and wades into the depths with the dog confirmed as its next meal.
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