After entering the bush to gather rubber, an elderly woman from Indonesia was attacked and eaten alive by a 22-foot-long python.
In the vicinity of her family’s house in Jambi province, on the western island of Sumatra, Jahrah, 54, disappeared on Friday night.
Locals dispatched search groups, and two days later they discovered her dead inside a giant snake with an enlarged stomach in a wooded clearing.
As with many Indonesians, Jarah’s village chief, Anto, stated the python probably murdered her by suffocating her with its body.
Anto continued that the grandma most likely suffered a torturous death that took up to two hours to complete.
The snake would have first pinned Jarah in place with its teeth, which are angled backward to provide extra grip.
Then, using its strong body to wrap around her as swiftly as it could, it would have slowly compressed her until she was unable to breathe.
It would have lost its jaw and gobbled her completely once she had suffocated.
Jarah’s body, including her clothes, appeared to be substantially undamaged after the snake was sliced open, suggesting that it may have taken the snake weeks to completely digest such a massive meal.
The official stated: “The victim did not return home on Friday after bidding her family farewell and going to the garden to gather rubber from trees.
The local authorities were notified by her family that she was missing, and a search has been ongoing ever since.
The snake was slain by locals, who then dissected its gut. Everybody was shocked. The woman we were seeking for turned out to be within the snake’s belly.
According to Anto, no locals were around when Jahrah was attacked by a snake while alone in the wilderness.
He claimed that because several enormous pythons have been spotted close by, the situation in his town is very tense.
Longer snakes, around 27 feet long, have already been attempted to be caught by locals, but they failed because they were too powerful, according to the man.
Villagers are now concerned that larger snakes are still in the jungle, Anto continued. Two local goats were also sucked in by the presence of this enormous snake.
The huge reticulated python that devoured Jahrah is one of several in Indonesia. They eat wild animals and sporadically humans while living in isolated forests.
On the island of West Sulawesi in March 2017, Akbar Salubiro was devoured alive and his stomach was hacked out by a python.