The victim, year-old Wa Tiba, went missing while checking her vegetable garden near her village on Muna island in Southeast Sulawesi province on Thursday evening, according to the village chief, Faris. On Friday, her family went to look for her at the garden but found only her belongings, including sandals and a flashlight, said Faris, who uses a single name. Reports of humans being killed by pythons are extremely rare. In the wild they are known to eat monkeys, pigs and other mammals. It was the second python attack on a human in Indonesia since March last year, when a year-old man was swallowed whole by a python in West Sulawesi province. Reticulated pythons, which are widespread in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, grab onto their prey with dozens of sharp curved teeth and then squeeze it to death before swallowing it whole.
How a giant python swallowed an Indonesian woman - BBC News
An Indonesian woman was killed and swallowed whole by a foot-long python on Thursday, with video showing villagers cutting open the reptile to reveal the woman's body. Wa Tiba, 54, went missing while working in her vegetable garden on the island of Muna in the Southeast Sulawesi province, a village chief told the Associated Press. On Friday, her family found her belongings abandoned at the garden, as well as a reticulated python with a bloated belly some 50 yards away, which they then captured and killed. Graphic video posted to social media shows the snake being sliced open to reveal the woman's body, still in her clothes. In March last year, a year-old Indonesian farmer was killed and devoured by a python on a palm oil plantation in West Sulawesi province.
Missing Indonesian woman's body found inside belly of 7-metre-long python | VIDEO
Jump to navigation. An Indonesian woman was found dead in the belly of an seven-metre-long python in central Indonesia. The missing victim, year-old Wa Tiba, was recovered from the bloated snake who was captured and killed near the place where she went missing.
The victim, named as Wa Tiba, was last seen at about 6. Horrifying pictures show her body being cut out of the snake after her kids found her sandals, machete and torch around 30 metres from a patch of bushes that appeared ruffled. Her sons then saw an enormous python lounged on the ground barely able to move - it had swallowed the year-old housewife head first. Neighbour Ayu Kartika said: ''Everybody was crying, everybody was shocked.