The woman was found fully clothed inside the snake. (Representative)
Makassar, Indonesia:
A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said on Saturday.
Farida’s 45-year-old husband and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured about five meters (16 feet).
The mother of four went missing on Thursday night and was unable to return home, forcing a search effort, village chief Suardi Rosi told AFP.
Her husband “found her belongings… which made him suspicious. Residents then searched the area. They soon spotted a python with a large belly,” Suardi said.
“They agreed to 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 of Tinanggea district in southeast Sulawesi killed an eight-meter python, which was found strangling and eating one of the village’s farmers.
In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found dead inside a seven-meter python in the city of Muna, southeast Sulawesi.
And the year before, a farmer in West Sulawesi disappeared before being found eaten alive by a four-meter python in a palm oil plantation.
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