A 45-year-old woman has been killed by a five-metre python, which swallowed her while she was returning from her garden in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province.
Local media reports said that the woman, a resident of Sidenreng Rappang district, had told her husband on Thursday she was going to sell chilies to a collector.
When the mother of four failed to return, her husband and relatives initiated a search.
The next morning, a python was discovered near the woman’s abandoned belongings, the village head, Suardi Rosi said.
Villagers, accustomed to the presence of these formidable predators, killed the snake and cut it open, revealing the woman’s body inside.