Indonesian woman found dead in the belly of a python

A woman was found dead in the belly of a python which had swallowed her whole, police in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi said on Wednesday (July 3).

The 36-year-old woman went missing after leaving her home Tuesday morning to buy medicine for her sick child, police said. His relatives, worried, then went looking for him.

Her husband discovered her shoes and pants on the ground about 500 meters from their house in the village of Siteba.

The snake still alive

“Shortly after, he spotted a snake, about ten meters from the path. The snake was still alive,” local police chief Idul, who, like many Indonesians, wears a only name.

The husband became suspicious after noticing the python’s “very large” belly, added Iyang, a village official. He then called the villagers to help him open the snake’s stomach where his wife’s body appeared.

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