The body of a 25-year-old Indonesian man has been found inside a snake after he went missing while harvesting crops.
The farmer, Akbar, disappeared on Sunday and his relatives had been searching for him until the snake was seen moving slowly through the village of Salubiro on the island of Sulawesi on Monday.
A senior village official said they quickly suspected that the snake had eaten Akbar:
“We were immediately suspicious that the snake had swallowed Akbar because around the site we found palm fruit, his harvesting tool and a boot.”
The attack from the giant python (measuring a whopping 7 metres long) was the first of its kind recorded in the region, with no other instances of a person being swallowed alive.
The snakes are common in Indonesia and the Philippines but traditionally stick to small animals.
Source: The Guardian.
Photo: Getty Images / Auscape.
