A 36-year-old Indonesian woman, who had gone missing after she stepped out to buy medicines for her sick child on July 2, was swallowed by a python.
When the woman did not return after going out to fetch some medicines, her relatives launched a search. Her husband Adiansa, 30, was the first to spot her slippers and pants lying on the ground about 500 metres from their home in Siteba village located in the South Sulawesi province, news agency AFP reported. According to The Sun, Adiansa also saw her legs sticking out of the python’s mouth.
“Shortly after that, he spotted a snake about 10 metres from the path. The snake was still alive,” local police chief Idul told the news agency. The snake apparently attacked Siriati as she walked through the forest and crushed her to death by constriction before swallowing her.
According to village secretary Iyang, Adiansa and called on other villagers to help him cut open its stomach.
When they did so, they found the missing woman’s body; she was swallowed whole by the python, making it the second python killing in the province in a month.
