The “belly of the great snake” aroused their curiosity: inside they discovered the corpse of a fully clothed mother
A woman was found dead in the stomach of a snake that swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official announced on Saturday, June 8, 2024.
On Friday, June 7, Farida's husband, a 45-year-old resident of Kalembang village in South Sulawesi province, was discovered inside a reticulated python about five meters long.
“Farida’s head appeared” in the reptile’s stomach
The village head, Suardi Rossi, told AFP that the mother of four children disappeared on Thursday evening, and a search for her had begun.
The villagers searched the area and soon spottedBig-bellied snakesaid Soardi Rossi.
“They decided to open her stomach and Farida's head appearedShe was fully clothed inside the snake.
Such incidents are extremely rare, but several people have died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed by snakes.
Several Python attacks
Last year, residents of Tenangia district in southeast Sulawesi killed an eight-metre-long python that had strangled and eaten a farmer.
In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found dead inside a seven-metre-long python in the town of Muna, southeast Sulawesi.
The previous year, a farmer in West Sulawesi was eaten by a four-metre-long python on a palm oil plantation.
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