A 50-year-old working on a plantation in Indonesia was apparently killed by a python, which then swallowed her body whole, various local media reported.
The victim, named Jahrah, worked on a rubber fig plantation in the Jambi region of the island of Sumatra.
Concerned that she would not come home after her day at work on Sunday, her husband went to the plantation where he discovered some of her personal belongings, including her sandals and a scarf.
A search the next morning made it possible to find the person responsible for the disappearance: a seven-meter-long python with an unusually swollen abdomen.
“It is believed that this snake was chasing the victim. After capturing her, we found the victim in her stomach,” local police chief AKP S Harefa told local media.
According to CNN Indonesia, the police officer clarified that the victim’s body was virtually intact.
Pythons catch their prey by choking them before swallowing them whole and slowly digesting them. Cases of human attacks are extremely rare, but not impossible.
According to The Guardian, two other similar cases have emerged in Indonesia in recent years. A farmer was killed and choked on Sulawesi island in 2017, while a woman suffered the same fate while gardening on Muna island in 2018.