A group of British tourists taking part in a sunset cruise along the Zambezi River were left horrified after seeing crocodiles eat a man , it has been reported . The tour group and their guide were making their way down the river between Zimbabwe and Zambia when they saw crocodiles feeding . But as they approached , it became clear that the reptiles were tearing apart the bottom half of a human . Horrified British tourists saw crocodiles eating a man on the banks of the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe ( file picture ) The Daily Telegraph reports that the tourists alerted authorities - but by the time officials had arrived to investigate , the remains of the body had vanished . It quotes a local source as saying : 'All there was to see of him was his trousers . We have had no information about anyone missing from villages around us , so we do n't think the man was a local . ' Trevor Lane of Zimbabwean conservation group , the Bhejane Trust , said the body was believed to have been a Zambian man . He is thought to have been among a group of 13 suspected poachers ambushed by park rangers in Zimbabwe just days earlier . Mr Lane suggested that one of the poachers was killed in a clash between the two groups and that only nine men made it back over the river to Zambia . When the tourists approached the crocodiles they could see that the reptiles were eating the bottom half of a human ( file picture ) He reportedly told the South African Press Association : 'We strongly suspect it was a poacher . 'Maybe he was wounded and tried to swim across the river . ' The Telegraph Mr Lane as saying there was a 'shoot out ' involving the poachers and the rangers and that he suspected the man was 'already dead when the crocodile ate him . ' It is the latest in a series of crocodile attacks in Zimbabwe and three children are reported to have been killed by them in the last three months . In one attack last month , a three-year-old girl was grabbed by a crocodile as she played on the banks of the river in the north of the country . A 16-year-old girl was attacked along the Runde River to the south on New Year 's Day .
British tourists were taking part in a sunset cruise along the Zambezi River . The incident happened on Saturday when one of the boats was hit by an unknown object and sank off the coast of Zimbabwe.