Body of missing woman found inside 7-metre python in Indonesia

The following morning, locals spotted a python nearby. “When the security team and residents conducted a search around the rubber plantation, then we found a 7-metre-long python. After we caught him, we found the victim’s body in the snake’s stomach,” local police chief AKP S Harefa told the Detik news site, reported The Guardian.

Pythons typically eat smaller animals and kill through constriction swallowing their food whole. Cases of humans being swallowed are rare. Every year, there are about 5.4 million global cases of snake bites, of which between 1.8 million and 2.7 million lead to poisoning, according to the World Health Organization. Children and agricultural workers in poor, rural communities are at risk the most.