This is the horror moment a missing fisherman's head was found in the stomach of a crocodile in Indonesia.

Yasmin, 68, told relatives he was going fishing in a river in the Rokan Hilir Regency of Riau province on September 19 morning. However, the family grew worried when night fell and he still had not returned home.

Senior Assistant Commissioner Isa Imam Syahroni, Rokan Hilir Police Chief, said the locals launched a search in the areas where Yasmin usually fished.

He said: 'At the location, the victim's son, Sunardi, discovered his father's clothes and a fishing rod left near the riverbank, but Yasmin was nowhere to be found.'

The search continued until the early morning of September 20, when residents heard loud splashing noises at the Bekoan Ditch in Teluk Nilap village, around 650ft away from where Yasmin's belongings were found. They saw a massive estuarine crocodile carrying the man's dismembered body in its jaws.

They used two electric generators to zap the ferocious reptile to death before dragging it ashore and cutting it open.

Gruesome footage shows residents tearing open the crocodile's gut to retrieve Yasmin's severed body parts, including his head and what appeared to be an arm.

Police chief Isa said: 'The body was no longer intact when it was collected. His head was severed from his body. The family has accepted his passing and refused a post-mortem exam because it is clear how he died.'

Just a day earlier, the body of a missing angler eaten by a crocodile was found in the same province.

Andika Saputra, 21, was found on September 19 half-eaten after being dragged into the Cantik River by a crocodile. He had been searching for snails to eat along the banks when the beast snapped him up and devoured him on September 15.

The Indonesian archipelago is home to 14 types of crocs - with a large population of extremely large and violent estuarine crocodiles that flourish in the region's climate.

Conservationists believe that crocodiles have been driven further inland closer to villages due to overfishing reducing the crocodiles' natural food supplies combined with habitat loss from the development of coastal areas into farms.

With uneducated locals in the developing country still using rivers for bathing and primitive fishing, the deadly combination of factors has led to rising numbers of crocodile attacks.