Villagers in Indonesia were left horrified when they discovered the body of a missing man inside the belly of a giant snake.
A six-minute video on the website of the Tribun Timur publication shows villagers slicing open the 7m-long python’s carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the 25-year-old victim, named Akbar Salubiro.
Junaedi,
the secretary of Salubiro village in West
Sulawesi province, said that
villagers began searching for Akbar on Monday night after realising he
had not returned from his palm oil crops.
Junaedi
said that the search party found scattered palm oil fruit, a picking
tool and a boot – and then spotted the engorged python in Akbar’s own
back garden.
He said: “When its stomach was cut, we first saw his boot and legs near the neck.
“It seems he was attacked from behind.”
Villagers used an 18-inch long hunting knife to slice open the serpent and Akbar – still intact – was found dead inside.
Local
media reported that Akbar’s wife, Munu, was away at the time and only
found out what had happened to her husband when pictures and video
emerged in the news.
Village
secretary Salubiro Junaidi added: “People had heard cries from the palm
grove the night before Akbar was found in the snake’s stomach.
When the snake was captured, the boots Akbar was wearing were clearly visible in the stomach of the snake.
“Resident cut open the belly of the snake and Akbar was lifeless.”
Reticulated pythons suffocate their victims before swallowing them whole.
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