Maputo: A young Mozambican football player was snatched and killed by a crocodile while training along the banks of a river, his club said on Monday. Estevao Alberto Gino (19), who played for Mozambique’s second division club Atletico Mineiro de Tete, lived near the Zambezi river in the western province of Tete.

“On that night, he was training and after jogging he stretched his hands into the water and that was when the crocodile caught him,” coach Eduardo Carvalho said.