KUALA LUMPUR: Personnel from the Fire and Rescue Service and Civil Defence Force are scouring the Klang River near Taman Seri Sentosa here for a crocodile that some residents claim to have spotted in muddy undergrowth last night.

The residents claimed to have seen the reptile in the undergrowth close to the flats at about 10pm and notified the Bukit Jalil Fire and Rescue Station, its operations chief Samsol Maarif Saibani said today.

He said a team of Fire and Rescue personnel rushed to the area after the station was notified.

“We also informed the Civil Defence Force of the sighting,” he told Bernama.

There are claims of people having spotted crocodiles in the Klang River that winds through part of this city.

The last reported sighting was in 2004 when a man claimed to have seen four of the reptiles at a stretch of the river next to the Federal Highway.