A grandmother was swallowed whole by a 22-foot python, on her way to work. Family of the 54-year-old woman reported her missing after she went to collect rubber on a plantation Sunday near her home in Jambi, Indonesia, according to CNN Indonesia. The city is on the island of Sumatra, the country’s largest and second-most populous Island.
The local police chief, Mr. Herafa, told CNN that when her husband went to look for her, he found only her sandals, jacket, headscarf and knife. Two days after she disappeared, a search party found a reticulated python with a large bulge in its stomach.
“After splitting the snake’s belly by residents, it turned out that… the woman was (the missing woman) who had died,” Harefa said to CNN Indonesia. The woman’s body was largely intact. No one witnessed the woman being eaten.
Reticulated pythons are the world’s longest snakes, reaching lengths of 28 feet, according to the Natural History Museum. Despite their huge size, the snakes can climb trees in pursuit of prey.
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