A woman has been swallowed whole by a five-metre-long python in central Indonesia, local media reported on Saturday.
The 45-year-old woman from Karempan village, South Sulawesi, had told her husband on Thursday that she was planning to sell chillies to a collector.
When she did not return, her husband and other relatives launched a search, village chief Suardi Rosi told news website Detik.com.
The python was reportedly found the following morning near some belongings the woman had left behind.
The woman, identified only as Farida, and her husband, along with several other villagers, killed the snake and cut it open.
A large disemboweled python
Earlier, her husband “found her belongings and became suspicious. Villagers then searched the area and soon found the big-bellied python,” Suardi said.
“They agreed to cut open the python's belly. As soon as they did, Farida's head was immediately visible.”
Farida was found trapped inside the snake with her clothes on.
While such incidents are thought to be extremely rare, several people have died after being swallowed whole by pythons in Indonesia in recent years.
Last year, residents of Tinangea district in southeast Sulawesi killed an eight-metre-long python they found strangling and eating one of the village's farmers.
In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found dead inside a seven-metre python in Muna town, Southeast Sulawesi.
A farmer from West Sulawesi went missing a year ago and was found eaten alive by a four-metre python on a palm oil plantation.
