Missing woman found inside a python

A missing woman was found inside a giant python in Indonesia, the animal would have swallowed her alive after biting her

The woman who often walked through the forest to sell food at a local market near her home in the village of Worriedshe would have been attacked by the python biting her leg and wrapping itself around her body to suffocate her before swallowing her still with a pulse and starting with the head.

The victim’s husband was the one who notified the other villagers of her disappearance who immediately joined in carrying out the search. The next day, while exploring the forest, they found a 5-meter python with a peculiar lump in its stomach. The villagers suspected something strange and that’s when they decided to cut the skin with a machete, finding the woman inside. The body was removed and taken for a religious burial in the district of Seven Riawasin the province of Sulawesi del Sur.

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The village chief Worried, Suardi Rosi, explained that the husband was the one who found the snake with a swollen stomach during the search. He immediately suspected that the python had eaten his wife, a suspicion that ended up being true unfortunately. The villagers collaborated to capture the python and remove the woman’s body, which was intact, even with the clothes she was wearing when she was attacked, since fully digesting a meal of that size would have taken the snake a couple of days. .

These types of incidents are extremely rare, but several people have died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed by pythons. Just last year, villagers in the district of Neighborin the southeast of the island of Celebes, They killed an eight-month-old python that had swallowed a farmer. and a similar case was that of another woman who was devoured, almost the same as the recent case.

The local authorities have not commented because it was the villagers themselves who found the victims and already know what the common denominator is in this type of disappearances. But even so, the authorities should take measures so that these types of deaths are not repeated in a time or a year.

Las reticulated pythons, the longest species in the world, inhabit Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. Its size can exceed 6,25 metros and occasionally there have been attacks on humans that have ended in tragic losses.