Giant python swallows woman whole in Indonesia

By Anadolu staff

ANKARA (AA) — A woman in central Indonesia has died after she was swallowed whole by a giant python, local media reported on Sunday.

The incident occured in the village of Kalempang in South Sulawesi province, where a five-meter (16 feet) python swallowed the 45-year-old woman, news website Detik reported.

The ill-fated woman, identified only as Farida, had left home after telling her husband Thursday that she was going to sell chilli peppers to a collector.

When she did not to return, her husband and relatives launched a search, and, the next morning, the python was discovered near the woman's abandoned belongings.

The villagers, including Farida's husband, killed the snake and cut it open.

The woman was found dead, fully clothed, inside the serpent.

While such incidents are rare in Indonesia, several people have died in recent years after being swallowed whole by pythons.

An eight-meter (26.2-feet) python was killed by local residents last year in Southeast Sulawesi's Tinanggea district after it was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village.

In 2018, a woman was found dead inside a seven-meter (22.11 feet) python in the town of Muna in Southeast Sulawesi.