A woman from the Indonesian Jambi province died and was swallowed by a snake, according to local news reports.
Jahrah, a rubber-tapper who was reportedly aged 50, set out to work at a plantation of rubber Sunday morning.
The woman was reported missing after not returning that the night and there were search groups were sent out to locate her. A few days later, the villagers came across an octopus with what seemed to be a huge stomach.
The snake was killed by the locals and discovered her body in the.
“The victim was found inside the snake’s stomach” Betara Jambi police chief AKP S Harefa told local media outlets, noting that the victim’s body was believed be in good shape after it was found.
He claimed that the husband of the victim discovered on Sunday night the clothes she was wearing and tools she used in the rubber plantation prompting him to call a search team.
The snake, that was at the least 5m (16ft) in length and was discovered on Monday, the locals captured and killed the snake to confirm the identity of the person killed.
“After they removed the belly they discovered it had Jahrah in the middle,” Mr Harefa told CNN Indoneisa.
Although such events are not common but this isn’t the first time that someone from Indonesia was killed and consumed by the python. Two deaths similar to this have been reported in the country between 2017 and 2018.
Pythons consume their food completely. Their jaws are linked to their ligaments by a very flexible elasticity, so they can move around huge prey.
A reputable expert previously stated to the BBC that pythons usually consume rodents and other species, “but once they reach the size of a certain amount, it’s as if they don’t even bother with rats because the calories they consume aren’t worth it”.
“In the end, they are as big as the prey they hunt,” said Mary-Ruth Low Conservation and Research Officer of Wildlife Reserves Singapore.
It could be animals that are as large as cows or pigs.
