A woman was found dead in the stomach of a snake after being bitten in central Indonesia, police said today. This is the second massacre in a month.
Siriati, 36, disappeared after leaving home yesterday morning to buy medicine for her sick child, police said, prompting her relatives to launch an investigation. Her husband Adiansa, 30, found her slippers and trousers on the ground about 500 meters from their home in Siteba town, South Sulawesi province.
Soon, he saw a snake, about ten meters from the road. The snake is still alive, regional police chief Idul, who like many Indonesians goes by the same name, told AFP.
Iyang village secretary told AFP that Adiansa was suspicious after seeing the large stomach of the python. He called the villagers to help him cut his belly, where they found his body.
Such events are considered extremely rare, but many people have been swallowed by pythons in recent years. A woman was found dead last month in the belly of a reticulated python in another district of South Sulawesi.
Last year, residents of the province killed an 8m python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village. A 54-year-old woman was found in 2018 in a 7m machine in the village of Muna, Southeast Sulawesi.
Last year, a farmer in West Sulawesi went missing before being found after being swallowed by a 4m python in a palm plantation.
