A tourist from Singapore has been injured after he was attacked by a Komodo dragon at an Indonesian national park.
The 50-year-old man was filming a group of Komodos eating at the Komodo National Park in East Nusa Tenggara province when one of the animals attacked him, the Viva.co news portal reported.
He suffered serious injuries to his left leg and was flown by helicopter to hospital.
Residents had reportedly warned him not to stray too close to the giant lizards.
"He was too busy filming and didn't pay attention to his surrounding," the park's director was quoted as saying.
The Komodo dragon is categorised as a vulnerable species, meaning that it is likely to become endangered unless their numbers grow.
An estimated 5000 Komodo dragons live in the Komodo National Park and its surrounding areas, about 1600 kilometres east of Jakarta.
Komodo dragons are known to be aggressive, but fatal attacks on humans are rare.
