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VADODARA: Villagers in Piparia, 17 km from Vadodara city, had an unusual guest who seemed to have come to watch their ‘sheri garbas.’Just when the Navrati revellry was about to end around Monday midnight, villagers noticed this new guest roaming around their garba venue; it was a seven-foot-long crocodile. Scared by the sudden presence of the crocodile, that too near the main village square, panic-stricken villagers immediately called the forest department. The reptile gave a real tough time to the rescuers as it ferociously kept snapping at the rescuer’s stick. Pipariya has a population of nearly 5,000.“Five months back, we had kept a cage on the lake’s bank after villagers reported about presence of a crocodile. But we did not trap a single reptile,” said a forester, working in the region.“It seems the same crocodile entered inside the village on Monday night but we are still wondering how it reached at this spot which is quite far away from the lake,” he said..