Grandmother, 54, is eaten alive by 22ft python
Giant snake is cut open by locals in Indonesia who found the creature with human-sized lump in the middle while searching for victim
A grandmother has been eaten alive by a 22ft python in Indonesia after going into the jungle to collect rubber. Jahrah, 54, vanished on Friday night in woodland near her family home in Jambi province, on the western island of Sumatra.
Locals sent out search parties and two days later found a huge snake in a forest clearing with a swollen stomach, and when they cut it open found her body inside. Anto, the head of Jarah's village who - like many Indonesians - uses just one name, said the python likely killed her by using its body to suffocate her. The grandmother likely died in an agonising ordeal that may have taken two hours to complete, Anto added.
The snake would have first used its fangs - which are angled backwards to provide more grip - to pin Jarah in place. It would then have wrapped around her as quickly as possible using its powerful body and slowly constricted her until she was unable to breath. After she had suffocated, it would have dislocated its jaw and swallowed her whole.
Enormous 22-Foot Python Believed to Have Swallowed Grandmother Whole
An enormous 22-foot python is believed to have swallowed a grandmother whole in Indonesia
The 54-year-old called Jahrah disappeared from her home in the Jambi province of Sumatra's western Island on October 21, according to the Mail Online. After a search party, local people allegedly found the huge python with a bulging stomach inside a forest. They cut it open and found the woman's body inside, the media outlet reported.
Indonesia is home to the reticulated python. The species can be found across South and Southeast Asia and is the world's longest snake. These snakes can reach enormous sizes. They regularly grow on average up to 16 feet, but some have been reported to be much larger. Reticulated pythons are constricting snakes, meaning they coil around their prey to kill it. They are a non-venomous species but incredibly strong. The species can swallow prey whole as their jaws are joined to flexible ligaments, meaning they can move around victims very easily.
"It does appear that there are some genuine cases of reticulated pythons eating humans," Graham Alexander, professor of herpetology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, told Newsweek. But he said that the woman would not have been eaten alive. "Typically, pythons will constrict their prey and kill it before ingesting," he said. According to Anto, who is the head of Jarah's local village, the grandmother was probably ingested in two hours.
Woman killed and swallowed whole by 22-foot python
When Jahrah, 54, left her home for work as a tree tapper on an Indonesian rubber plantation on Sunday morning, it was the last time her family would see her alive. When Jahrah failed to return home that afternoon, her husband sounded the alarm and went out to find her.
The first sign that something was wrong was his discovery of his missing wife’s sandals, jacket, headscarf and knife on the forest floor. The second sign was a heavily bloated snake, encountered by a search party looking for Jahrah the following morning.“ During the search the team found a giant python, measuring 7 meters [22 feet] in length, which we suspected had preyed on the victim,” the local police later said in a statement, which had referred to the victim simply as “Jahrah,” in line with the Indonesian custom of going by just one name. “The team captured the snake.”
The search team killed the reptile and sliced open its stomach, where they discovered Jahrah’s remains completely intact. “The victim’s body was not destroyed when we found her inside the snake, meaning that she had only been recently swallowed whole,” the police said, after they found the reptile near the village of Betara in Indonesia’s Jambi province, located on Sumatra island.
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Python swallows woman at plantation in Indonesia
A woman was found dead in the stomach of a 7-metre python at a rubber plantation where she worked in Indonesia, according to local reports. The woman, identified as Jahrah, 54, went to work on the plantation in Jambi province, on the island of Sumatra, on Sunday morning and her husband reported her missing when she did not return home that evening.
Searching for her on Sunday night, her husband discovered her sandals, headscarf, jacket and the tools she used at work, and called for others to help, police told local media. The following morning, a python was spotted nearby. “When the security team and residents conducted a search around the rubber plantation, then we found a python 7 metres long. It is this snake that is suspected of preying on the victim. After we caught him, we found the victim’s body in the snake’s stomach,” the local police chief, AKP S Harefa, told the Detik news site.
Pythons, which kill through constriction, typically eat smaller animals, swallowing their food whole. Cases of humans being swallowed are rare. In 2018, a woman was found to have been swallowed by a giant python on the island of Muna, off Sulawesi. She had gone missing in her garden, which was at the base of a rocky cliff where snakes were known to live in caves. A year earlier, a farmer was killed and swallowed by a giant python in the village of Salubiro, on Sulawesi island.
Missing woman’s body discovered in the stomach of 22-foot-long python in Indonesia
A 54-year-old woman in Indonesia was killed and eaten by a massive python
The body of a woman in Indonesia was recently discovered in the stomach of a massive, 22-foot-long (6.7 meters) python, which had killed and swallowed its victim whole.
The woman, a 54-year-old grandmother named Jahrah, went missing in Jambi province on the island of Sumatra on Oct. 23, according to CNN Indonesia(opens in new tab). Her family reported her missing when she did not return home that evening. A search party, which included her husband, was unable to locate her that night, though they found her sandals and several articles of clothing on the ground, The Guardian(opens in new tab) reported.
The next day, locals spotted a gigantic python lurking near the spot where her discarded clothing had been found. Witnesses said that the snake had a suspiciously large stomach bulge, BBC News(opens in new tab) reported. A group of villagers chased the python down and killed it. After they split open the snake's belly they discovered a body inside, which was identified as that of the missing woman, local police chief AKP S Harefa said in a statement, according to CNN Indonesia.
Chronology of Women Eaten by Pythons in Jambi
A woman, Jahrah (54), was found dead after being eaten by a python in a rubber plantation in the Elephant Waterfall Village, West Tanjab Regency, Jambi, Monday (24/10) at around 09.30 WIB. Illustration (BETWEEN PHOTOS/Syaiful Arif)
A woman, Jahrah (54), was found dead after being eaten by a python in a rubber plantation in the Elephant Falls Village, West Tanjab Regency, Jambi .
The victim's body was still in the python's stomach which was caught on Monday (24/10) at around 09.30 WIB.
Initially the victim went to work in a rubber plantation on Sunday, October 23 morning. However, until that evening the victim did not come home. "So the husband of the victim took him to the location of the garden and was not found," said Kapolsek Betara Jambi AKP S Harefa in his statement, Tuesday (25/10).
Harefa said the victim's husband found sandals, a sharp knife, a headscarf and a jacket around the rubber plantation. The victim's husband then sought help to find his wife. The search was carried out with the village community until around 02.00 WIB. The search was then terminated and resumed the following day. In the morning, a large python was found which was thought to have eaten the victim.
Indonesian woman's body found inside python, say reports
A woman in Indonesia's Jambi province was killed and swallowed whole by a python, according to local reports. Jahrah, a rubber-tapper reportedly in her 50s, had made her way to work at a rubber plantation on Sunday morning. She was reported missing after failing to return that night, and search parties sent out to find her. A day later villagers found a python with what appeared to be a large stomach.
Locals later killed the snake and found her body inside. "The victim was found in the snake's stomach," Betara Jambi police chief AKP S Harefa told local media outlets, adding that her body appeared to be largely intact when it was found. He said the victim's husband had on Sunday night found some of her clothes and tools she had used at the rubber plantation, leading him to call on a search party.
After the snake - which was at least 5m (16ft) long - was spotted on Monday, villagers then caught and killed it to verify the victim's identity. "After they cut the belly apart, they found it was Jahrah inside," Mr Harefa told CNN Indoneisa. Though such incidents are rare, this is not the first time someone in Indonesia has been killed and eaten by a python. Two similar deaths were reported in the country between 2017 and 2018.
Missing grandma’s body found in monster python that swallowed her whole
Video showed villagers trapping and cutting open the monster snake, finding the remains of the missing grandma inside
A grandmother was swallowed whole by a 22-foot-long python in Indonesia — with shocking video capturing the moment her remains were found inside the cut-open beast. Police told CNN Indonesia that a search was launched after the victim, only identified as Jahrah, 54, failed to return from collecting rubber from a plantation in Jambi province on Sunday.
Her husband searched the area, but only found his wife’s sandals, jacket, headscarf and knife, Betara Jambi Police Chief AKP Herafa told the outlet. He returned to the same area with a search party the next day — stumbling across the giant snake with a swollen mid-section where it had eaten something large, police confirmed. Wild video shows a volunteer carefully using a branch to pin the python’s head down as others started bashing it above the swollen area.
The disturbing clip then cut to villagers carefully slicing it open — revealing what officials say was the swallowed body of the missing grandma. “Everyone was astonished,” Anto, the head of the local Terjun Gajah village, told ViralPress. “It turned out that the woman we were looking for was in the snake’s stomach.” The snake likely bit Jahrah and then suffocated her by wrapping itself around her before swallowing her, said Anto — who estimated it would have taken at least two hours.
Woman swallowed whole by 22ft long python after disappearing in Indonesia
Police and locals made a horrific discovery during the search for missing Jahrah
A GRANDMOTHER who disappeared in woods in Indonesia was ate whole by a giant python. The woman, named locally as Jahrah, 54, disappeared after going out to collect rubber in the forest near her family home in Jambi, Indonesia, last Friday night. She was reported missing by concerned relatives after she failed to return from her jungle quest.
Locals organised search parties and began trawling through the dense woodland in the Tanjung Jabung Barat regency. Cops and residents then tragically stumbled across the granny - who was trapped inside the swollen stomach of a 22ft long python. They spotted the mammoth snake with a large bulge in its belly in a clearing among trees while hunting for Jahrah on October 23. Locals sliced open the beast's stomach before confirming their fears - that the 54-year-old had been swallowed whole by the python.
Shocking footage captured the moment the gran's remains were gruesomely found rotting inside the serpent's digestive tract. The video shows Jahrah's frantic friends cornering the gigantic python before prising open its stomach. They then found the petite gran curled up inside the bloated snake - before covering up both of the corpses with a blue tarpaulin sheet.
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The gruesome video shows dozens of locals surrounding the snake and dissecting its stomach to retrieve the lifeless body of the mother-of-two Wa Tiba, 54. The alarm was raised when her two children came across her sandals, machete and torch near a patch of bushes that appeared ruffled.
The boys saw the huge python which was barely able to move - having swallowed the woman whole. Villagers cut open the 23-foot python on the island of Muna, Southeast Sulawesi, to retrieve the body.
The shocking scene was captured by locals near where the victim disappeared, which has left neighbours terrified and "praying for their lives". Local police chief Hamka said: “Residents were suspicious the snake swallowed the victim, so they killed it, then carried it out of the garden.
Missing man found inside 7-m python
A missing man’s body was recovered from a massive python in Indonesia this week
The body of a missing Indonesian man has been recovered inside of a 23-foot-long python, after the victim was killed and swallowed whole.
Extremely disturbing video shot on the island of Sulawesi on Wednesday shows villagers slicing open the reptile’s carcass to reveal the 25-year-old man named Akbar, The Associated Press reported.
Junaedi, the secretary of Salubiro village, told the AP that the discovery capped a near two-day search for the man after he vanished while working on palm oil crops on Sunday. A search party went out on Monday night when he failed to return.