JAKARTA – A 54-year-old woman who had gone missing in a remote village in Jambi province located on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has reportedly been found dead in the stomach of a reticulated python which had swallowed her.
The victim, a rubber tapper identified as Jahrah, from Terjun Gajah village, West Tanjung Jabung Regency, had gone into the family’s plantation alone.
Jahrah usually reaches home before sunset, but she did not return to her house last Sunday even after it turned dark, Betara Jambi Police head S. Harefa told the local news outlets.
Her worried husband searched the area throughout the night and found her sandals, rubber-tapping knife, headscarf, and jacket.
Yesterday morning, her husband and relatives found the 7m-long python slithering uncomfortably with a swollen midsection.
The search group had no option but to kill the snake and cut it open, Harefa said, adding that the body of the missing woman was found largely intact having been swallowed whole.
In 2017, a 25-year-old farmer was also found dead inside the belly of a python in Salubiro, West Sulawesi province. – Bernama, October 26, 2022
