Horrifying footage shows the moment an Indonesian farmer was cut from the belly of a 23ft python that crushed him and swallowed him whole.
Father-of-three Peco, 30, went into a palm plantation to collect sap for making brown sugar when the killer beast pounced on him in North Luwu Regency shortly after dusk on Tuesday.
The giant snake suffocated the man by coiling around his body and crushing him to death.
It then dislocated its deadly jaws to take the length of the 5ft 3inch tall man in its throat.
Peco’s worried brother-in-law Wawan went out looking for his relative when he failed to return to his home in the Mamea hamlet in the village of Malimbu, Sabbang district.
The relative spotted the snake with bulging guts and rushed back to raise the alarm.
Graphic footage shows how village chiefs arrived and sliced open the reptile to reveal the slime-covered corpse of the palm plantation farm hand shortly before midnight.
Wawan said: ‘We used to joke that we could be eaten by a snake at night. They are a danger that everyone knows about.
‘I cannot explain how my brother was caught by one. He was very experienced.’
Graphic footage shows how village chiefs arrived and sliced open the reptile to reveal the slime-covered corpse
The farmer was cut from the snake’s body after he was crushed to death by it and swallowed whole
The snake’s flesh was peeled back to reveal the deceased father-of-three
A piece of cloth was placed over where the group had cut into the python. It was then pulled back to reveal the body of the man
Police who arrived at the scene confirmed that Peco was killed by the python.
They are not looking for anyone else over the death and his wife, Dewi, and their three children have been told.
Sabbang Police Chief Ipda Jusman said: ‘The snake was found and after that, residents were called and together they removed the victim’s body from the snake’s stomach.
‘After successfully removing the victim’s body from the python’s stomach, residents then took the victim’s body to the funeral home. He will be cremated today.’
Indonesia, a vast archipelago in Southeast Asia, is home to some of the world’s biggest pythons and crocodiles.
The sprawling areas of untouched woodland provide the perfect environment for the snakes to hunt unrestricted and grow to huge lengths.
However, there have been rising numbers of attacks on humans in recent years as palm sugar and rubber plantations have increased. Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers of palm sugar, a natural sweetener derived from the sap of palm trees.
Shocking pictures show Peco’s corpse partially exposed after locals cut open the snake
‘After successfully removing the victim’s body from the python’s stomach, residents then took the victim’s body to the funeral home,’ the local police chief said
In August this year, grandmother Hapsah, 57, was crushed to death by a huge python while she was working at a farm in Muaro Jambi Regency, Jambi province.
The 16ft snake easily overpowered the struggling petite woman and wrapped itself around her body. It slowly squeezed the breath out of her lungs until she passed out.
Just a few days before, Maga, 74, had taken her cows to graze in a forested area in the Sumarambu mountains, around a mile from her home in Palopo City in South Sulawesi when a snake caught her and killed her.
In July, mother-of-five Siriati, 30, was visiting her brother to go to the market together to buy medicine when she was eaten alive by a python in Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi.
A month before, mother-of-four Farida, 50, disappeared while she was walking through woodland to sell food at a local market near her home in the village of Kalempang.
The killed python plunged its teeth into her leg as it coiled around her body and suffocated her before swallowing her head first.
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