Python swallows another woman in Indonesia in a month, husband finds slippers
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Makassar, Indonesia: A woman in central Indonesia was found dead in the belly of a python after she had gone missing, news agency AFP reported citing police.
This is the second incident of python killing a human in the province in a month.
Siriati, 36, had left her house Tuesday morning to buy medicine for her sick child when the snake swallowed her whole.
Following her disappearance, relatives launched a search ending up finding a snake not far away from her home in Siteba village, South Sulawesi province.
Her husband Adiansa, 30, came across her slippers and pants just about 500 metres from their house.
"Shortly after that, he spotted a snake, about 10 metres from the path. The snake was still alive," AFP quoted local police chief Idul as saying.
Adiansa became suspicious noticing the ‘very large’ belly of the python, according to Village secretary Iyang, and the villagers cut open its stomach only to find her body inside.
Though rare, several people have been killed by pythons in recent years with a woman having found dead inside the belly of a python last month in the district of South Sulawesi.
Last year people in the area killed python after it strangled and ate a farmer in the village.
In another incident in Southeast Sulawesi's Muna town, a 54-year-old woman was swallowed whole by a seven-metre python in 2018.