An Indonesian woman was found dead in a giant Python after she went missing from her village in South Sulawesi province.
Farida, a 45-year-old mother of four, was reported missing by her husband on Thursday night after she did not return home. Her husband and other residents of Kalumbang village quickly organized a search of the surrounding area, village chief Suadi Rossi told reporters. AFP.
An initial search in South Sulawesi province, a densely forested and mountainous region, found no trace of the missing woman. During the search, Farida's husband found some of her belongings, “which made him suspicious,” Rossi said.
Villagers searched the area near where Farida found the items and “soon discovered a big-bellied python,” the village chief told AFP.
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“They agreed to cut open the python's belly. As soon as they did, Farida's head was immediately revealed.”
The mother of four was found fully clothed inside the belly of the giant, five-metre-long reticulated python.
A harrowing video captured the moment villagers cut open the snake and found Farida's body. Her body was brought back to the village wrapped in a blanket as her community stood by the roadside, grieving and crying at the sight of their dead neighbour.
Pythons squeeze their prey to death and then swallow it whole. Cases of pythons eating humans are extremely rare, as pythons usually hunt smaller prey, but there have been at least five such incidents in Indonesia since 2017.
Last year, residents of a village in Southeast Sulawesi killed an eight-meter-long python after finding it strangling and eating a farmer. In 2022, a rubber cutter from Sumatra was found in the stomach of a python. Swallowed her whole.
In 2018, a woman was found dead inside a 7-meter-long python, also in Southeast Sulawesi. A year earlier, a farmer in West Sulawesi was found devoured by a 4-meter-long python on a palm oil plantation.
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