Missing Indonesian woman’s body found inside a python

An Indonesian woman who was missing has been found in the belly of a giant python. A swollen snake was captured near where she vanished.

Police said that the woman was tending her plantation around one km away from her house when the incident occurred police.

The body of 54-year-old Wa Tiba was found on Friday when villagers got suspicious that the python might have swallowed her. The locals cut open the seven-metre (23-foot) python which was found bloated in the village of Persiapan Lawela on the island of Muna, offshore of Sulawesi.

“Residents were suspicious the snake swallowed the victim, so they killed it, then carried it out of the garden,” said local police chief Hamka

“The snake’s belly was cut open and the body of the victim was found inside.”

Around 100 residents, including worried relatives, launched a search for the woman after she failed to return from her garden on Thursday night.

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Hamka said villagers found the giant serpent lying about 30 metres from Tiba’s sandals and machete, adding she was swallowed head first and her body was found intact.

The garden in which she disappeared was at the base of a rocky cliff, pockmarked by caves, and known to be home to snakes, Hamka added.

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In March last year, a farmer was killed by a python in the village of Salubiro on Sulawesi Island.

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