Indonesian authorities said they found the body of a missing Indonesian grandmother in the belly of a python that villagers killed over the weekend.
Jahrah, who has only one first name, as is customary in Indonesia, went out to collect rubber In the jungle in Jambi Province on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Sunday morning. When she did not return home that night, her husband began to worry and prompted her to warn the other villagers and report her missing.
A search party was held that night to find the 54-year-old grandmother, but they only found her sandals, headscarf and jacket and the tools she was using to collect tires at the time.
The search teams succeeded only a day later, on Monday, when they discovered a 22-foot-tall (6.7-metre-long) python with a bloated stomach sitting in the woods. Online shared video It shows the villagers killing the snake with spears and beating its head.
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The villagers seized the snake and dismembered its body. Terribly, they found Jahrah’s undigested remains intact in the python’s stomach.
“His family later reported him missing to local authorities, and a search has since been made.” The headman of the local village, Anto, said: aforementioned. “The snake was killed by the locals, who later ripped out his stomach. Everyone was shocked. It turned out that the woman we were looking for was in the snake’s stomach.”
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Betara Jambi police chief AKP S Harefa shared similar details while speaking to local media on Tuesday. CNN Indonesia reported.
“For the python found near Betara village in Jambi Province, when we found the victim’s body inside the snake, it wasn’t destroyed, meaning it was recently swallowed whole,” police said.
While it’s unclear how Jahra was killed, Anto speculated that she might have been snatched by the python’s jaw and slowly choked to death before swallowing it whole.
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While pythons typically eat rats and other animals, reptiles often change their diet as they grow in size, according to Mary-Ruth Low, a former conservation and research associate with the Mandai Wildlife Group.
to talk BBC“Once they reach a certain size, they no longer deal with mice because the calories aren’t worth it,” Low explained.
“In essence, they can get as big as their prey goes,” Low added.
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Snake conservationist Nathan Rusli, director of the Indonesian Herpetofauna Foundation, suspects that the python species that killed Jahra was a reticulated python living in Jambi Province, the only reptile species large enough to swallow a human.
“They are claws, so what they do is wrap their bodies around you. They’ll give you a death hug. “You breathe in and your body shrinks, tightening your grip and you can’t exhale,” Rusli told the Washington Post. “A snake’s upper and lower jaws are connected by ligaments, it’s pretty flexible. They can swallow prey larger than their heads.”
