A missing grandma’s body was found inside a python swallowed whole.
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.
Jahrah, 54, disappeared after popping out to collect rubber in the forest near her family home in Jambi, Indonesia, last Friday night, The Sun reports.
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 7m-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. They then found the petite gran curled up inside the bloated snake – before covering up both of the corpses with a blue tarpaulin sheet.
Jarah’s body appeared to be largely intact – as were the clothes she was wearing – despite her being devoured by the slippery creature.
The head of the Terjun Gajah village where Jahrah lived, Anto, said the python is believed to have bit the gran with its fearsome fangs.
It would then have intensely wrapped itself around her to suffocate her – squeezing its prey before she became unable to breathe.
Jahrah is said to have then been swallowed whole in an agonising ordeal that would have lasted for at least two hours.
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