A woman was found dead in the belly of a python that had swallowed her whole, police in the central Indonesian province of South Sulawesi said on Wednesday.
The 36-year-old woman disappeared after leaving her home on Tuesday morning to buy medicine for her sick child, police said. Worried relatives went looking for her.
Her husband discovered her shoes and trousers on the ground about 500 metres from their home in the village of Siteba. "Shortly afterwards, he spotted a snake about ten metres off the path. The snake was still alive," the local police chief told AFP.
The husband became suspicious after noticing the python's "very large" belly. He then called on villagers to help him open the snake's stomach, where his wife's body appeared.
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In early June, a 45-year-old woman was found dead in the stomach of a reticulated python, around five metres long. The accident took place in the same province of South Sulawesi but in a separate village.
Last year, residents of the district of Tinanggea, in the south-east of the island of Sulawesi, killed an eight-metre python that was found strangling and swallowing a farmer.
In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found dead inside a seven-metre python in the municipality of Muna, in the south-east of the same region. The previous year, a farmer in West Sulawesi was devoured by a four-metre python on a palm oil plantation.
