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  • Woman found dead swallowed by python in Indonesia

    Woman found dead swallowed by python in Indonesia

    A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, police said Wednesday, the second python killing in the province in a month.

    Siriati, 36, had gone missing after she left her house Tuesday morning to buy medicine for her sick child, police said, prompting relatives to launch a search.

    Her husband Adiansa, 30, found her slippers and pants on the ground about 500 metres (yards) from their house in Siteba village, South Sulawesi province.

    “Shortly after that, he spotted a snake, about 10 metres from the path. The snake was still alive,” local police chief Idul, who like many Indonesians has one name, told AFP.

    Village secretary Iyang told AFP that Adiansa became suspicious after he noticed the python’s “very large” belly. He called the villagers to help cut open its stomach, where they found her body.

    Such incidents are considered extremely rare, but several people have been swallowed by pythons in recent years.

    A woman was found dead last month inside the belly of a reticulated python in another district of South Sulawesi.

    Last year residents in the province killed an eight-metre python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village.

    A 54-year-old woman was found dead in 2018 inside a seven-metre python in Southeast Sulawesi’s Muna town.

    And the year before, a farmer in West Sulawesi went missing before being found being swallowed by a four-metre python at a palm oil plantation.

  • Indonesian woman found inside belly of python

    Indonesian woman found inside belly of python

    A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday.

    The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five metres (16 feet).

    The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.

    Her husband “found her belongings… which made him suspicious. The villagers then searched the area. They soon spotted a python with a large belly,” said Suardi.

    “They agreed to cut open the python’s stomach. As soon as they did, Farida’s head was immediately visible.”

    Farida was found fully clothed inside the snake.

    Such incidents are considered extremely rare but several people have died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed whole by pythons.

    Last year, residents in Southeast Sulawesi’s Tinanggea district killed an eight-metre python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village.

    In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found dead inside a seven-metre python in Southeast Sulawesi’s Muna town.

    And the year before, a farmer in West Sulawesi went missing before being found eaten alive by a four-metre python at a palm oil plantation.

  • VIDEO: 10-foot-long python slides through grocery store racks

    VIDEO: 10-foot-long python slides through grocery store racks

    A grocery store turned into a snake rescue in Australia when a 10-foot-long non-venomous python slid through the racks to greet a woman customer.

    The 25-year-old, Helaina Alati, was at a Sydney store on Monday when the snake slithered out.

    Alati was not expecting a snake at the supermarket. But fortunately for both parties, Alati is a wildlife rescuer and familiar with snakes.

    “I just turned my head and he was about 20cm from my face, just looking straight at me,” she told the BBC.

    She did a double-take but stayed calm. No one else was around. Recognising it instantly as a diamond python, Alati knew it wasn’t poisonous as it protruded and flicked its tongue.

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    “He was looking straight at me the whole time, almost like he was saying: ‘Can you take me outside please?’” she said.

    After recording a video, Alati alerted staff and told them she could help them get it out.

    She retrieved a snake bag from her home, returned to the store, “tapped him on the tail and he just slithered in”.

    She then released it away from houses in bushland – a natural habitat for the species around Sydney.

  • Python recovered from house in Lahore

    Python recovered from house in Lahore

    Rescue 1122 team found a python which was almost seven-foot-long from a house in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu area.

    As per reports, the team had received an emergency call from a resident of Siddique Colony who found the python at his home. The rescue authorities managed to recover the python who was six feet and 11 inches long.

    A spokesperson for the Rescue 1122 said it would be too early to say as to how and from where the snake came into the house. He further said that the python had been handed over to the Lahore Zoo administration under an already issued standard operating procedure.

    He said the Rescue 1122 teams had responded to 1,719 emergency calls related to the existence of snakes all over the province since January this year.