Docho Eshete was in the process of baptising the first of a total of 80 congregants on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in Arba Minch town’s Merkeb Tabya district when the unfortunate incident happened.

ARBA MINCH, Ethiopia — A Protestant pastor in Ethiopia was killed Sunday morning after being attacked by a crocodile while baptizing people in a lake, BBC reports. Docho Eshete and about 80 people ...

This 2012 photo shows Ethiopia’s second-largest lake, Lake Abaya. (Wikimedia/Bernard Gagnon) ARBA MINCH, Ethiopia – Some 80 people set to be baptized at a lake in southern Ethiopia instead watched as ...

A crocodile has killed a Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in southern Ethiopia. Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in ...

ARBA MINCH, Ethiopia – Some 80 people set to be baptized at a lake in southern Ethiopia instead watched as their pastor was killed by a crocodile Sunday. Pastor Docho Eshete had baptized one person on ...

This 2012 photo shows Ethiopia’s second-largest lake, Lake Abaya. (Wikimedia/Bernard Gagnon) ARBA MINCH, Ethiopia – Some 80 people set to be baptized at a lake in southern Ethiopia instead watched as ...