A woman was found dead in the stomach of a snake that had swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official announced on Saturday.
On Friday, Farida's husband, 45, and residents of Kalembang village in South Sulawesi province discovered the snake inside a reticulated python, about five meters long.
The village head, Suardi Rossi, told AFP that the mother of four children disappeared on Thursday evening, and a search for her had begun.
Suardi Rossi said villagers searched the area and soon spotted a “big-bellied snake.”
“They decided to open her stomach and Farida’s head appeared.” She was fully clothed inside the snake.
Such incidents are extremely rare, but several people have died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed by snakes.
Last year, residents of Tenangia district in southeast Sulawesi killed an eight-metre-long python that had strangled and eaten a farmer.
In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found dead inside a seven-metre-long python in the town of Muna, southeast Sulawesi. The previous year, a farmer in West Sulawesi was eaten by a four-metre-long python on a palm oil plantation.
