54 year old grandmother eaten alive by 22ft Giant snake in Indonesia
A grandmother has been eaten alive by a 22ft python in Indonesia after going into the jungle to collect rubber.
Jahrah, 54, vanished on Friday night in woodland near her family home in Jambi province, on the western island of Sumatra.
Locals sent out search parties and two days later found a huge snake in a forest clearing with a swollen stomach, and when they cut it open found her body inside.
Anto, the head of Jarah’s village who – like many Indonesians – uses just one name, said the python likely killed her by using its body to suffocate her.
The grandmother likely died in an agonising ordeal that may have taken two hours to complete, Anto added.
The snake would have first used its fangs – which are angled backwards to provide more grip – to pin Jarah in place.
It would then have wrapped around her as quickly as possible using its powerful body and slowly constricted her until she was unable to breath.
After she had suffocated, it would have dislocated its jaw and swallowed her whole.
Fully digesting a meal that size may have taken the snake weeks, and Jarah’s body appeared largely intact – including her clothes – after the snake was cut open.
The official said: ‘The victim did not come home after saying goodbye to her family to go to the garden collecting rubber from trees on Friday.
‘Her family then reported her missing to the local authorities, and a search has been carried out since then.
‘Residents killed the snake and dissected its stomach. Everyone was astonished. It turned out that the woman we were looking for was in the snake’s stomach.’
Anto said no residents witnessed when Jahrah was eaten by a snake as she went to the forest alone.