Missing Indonesian woman was found inside a python 3 days later

Makassar, Indonesia: A 45-year-old woman was found inside the belly of a python in the South Sulawesi province of the country, news agency AFP reported. 

Farida had gone missing since Thursday night and a search for her ended up finding a snake with a swollen belly.

Her husband and residents of Kalempang village found her inside a five-metre long reticulated python on Friday.

The search for her started after the mother of four failed to return home on Thursday.

The village head Suardi Rosi reportedly said that Farida’s husband ‘found her belongings... which made him suspicious. The villagers then searched the area. They soon spotted a python with a large belly’.

When they cut open the snake’s stomach, her head was immediately visible and was found as ‘fully clothed inside the snake’.

Snakes preying upon humans are rare though, several incidents of pythons swallowing people whole in Indonesia have been reported in recent years.

When an eight-metre python was strangling and killing a farmer last year, the residents of Southeast Sulawesi's Tinanggea district killed it.

A 54-year-old woman was found dead inside python in Southeast Sulawesi's Muna town in 2018 and in another incident a farmer was found eaten alive by a four-metre python at a palm oil plantation.