A 55-year-old farmer Ginka Thimappa was killed by a crocodile in Bheema River at his Kusummurthy village in Narayanpet district of Telangana on Saturday afternoon, while another villager Shivappa Gowda escaped miraculously in the incident. Accompanied by Shivappa, Thimappa went to his agricultural land abutting the Bheema River. He was checking the pipeline valve connected to the electrical motor to draw water from the river when the crocodile came from behind and attacked him around 2.15 pm.