A woman was swallowed whole by a snake. The body was found inside the stomach.

It happened in central Indonesia.

The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of the village of Kalembang (in South Sulawesi province) recovered her inside a reticulated python, a reptile about five meters long. Village chief Suardi Rossi explained that the woman, a mother of four children, disappeared on Thursday evening and did not return to her home, which led to the start of a search.

Her husband “found her personal belongings…which raised his suspicions.” The villagers then searched the area. “Soon they discovered a large-bellied snake,” Suardi added. “Then they decided to open the snake’s stomach.” Farida was found still fully clothed inside the snake.

Similar incidents are extremely rare, but several people have died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed by snakes.

Last year, residents of Tenangia district in southeast Sulawesi killed an eight-metre-long python that was found eating a farmer in a village. In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found dead inside a seven-metre-long python in the city of Mona, southeast Sulawesi. The previous year, a farmer had disappeared in West Sulawesi: he was later discovered to have been eaten alive by a four-metre-long python on an oil palm plantation.

(Union Online/SS)

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