02/04/2017

Missing man found inside 7-m python

Update 25 Oct 2022: Grandmother, 54, is eaten alive by 22ft python
Giant snake is cut open by locals in Indonesia who found the creature with human-sized lump in the middle while searching for victim

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.


Another Indonesian Villager Has Been Swallowed Whole by a Python

For the second time in barely more than a year, an Indonesian villager has been swallowed whole by a python.

Wa Tiba, 54, left her home on Muna island to visit her cornfield Thursday night, according to the Jakarta Post. The field was about a half mile from her house, surrounded by cliffs, caves and a certain number of reticulated pythons, the longest snakes in the world.

The snakes normally feed on smaller mammals. Attacks on humans are supposed to be as rare as winning the lottery and being struck by lightning at the same time, as Amy B Wang wrote in a Washington Post report.

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WARNING: This video contains graphic images, showing a man’s body being recovered from inside a snake, which may be extremely unsettling for some audiences.

Missing Indonesian Man’s Body Found Inside Massive Python

A missing man’s body was recovered from a massive python in Indonesia this week

The body of a missing Indonesian man has been recovered inside of a 23-foot-long python, after the victim was killed and swallowed whole.

Extremely disturbing video shot on the island of Sulawesi on Wednesday shows villagers slicing open the reptile’s carcass to reveal the 25-year-old man named Akbar, The Associated Press reported.

Junaedi, the secretary of Salubiro village, told the AP that the discovery capped a near two-day search for the man after he vanished while working on palm oil crops on Sunday. A search party went out on Monday night when he failed to return.

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How did an Indonesian python eat a man?
Indonesian police say a farmer in Indonesia has been eaten by a python, which was later cut open to retrieve the man's body

The 25-year-old was seemingly attacked and swallowed at a palm oil plantation near his village in West Sulawesi.

But the extraordinary case has prompted a number of questions. How could it do it?

Reticulated pythons of this size - it was reported to be 7m (23ft)-long - are very powerful. They wrap themselves around their prey and crush it, killing it by suffocation or cardiac arrest.

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Indonesian Villagers Cut Open 7-Meter Python to Find Missing Man Swallowed Whole [Warning, Graphic Content]
Villagers from an island in west Sulawesi, Indonesia were shocked when they discovered the dead body of a missing man inside a stomach of a seven-meter python after cutting the snake open

According to Daily Mail, 25-year-old Akbar Salubiro, a palm oil farmer in Indonesia, went missing on Sunday. Akbar went out to harvest some palm, but when he did not return, people started to look for him.

During their search, Akbar's friend found a giant python in his back garden. Afraid that Akbar has been swallowed by the snake, the villagers sliced the python's belly using an 18-inch hunting knife.

Upon slicing, the villagers got the shock of a lifetime when they saw Akbar's lifeless body -- still whole -- curled up inside the seven-meter python's stomach.

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WATCH: Men cut friend out of python after he was swallowed whole
WARNING, DISTRESSING: The sickening moment villagers cut their dead missing mate out of a seven-metre long python's stomach after he was swallowed whole, has been captured on video

Abar Salubiro, 25, disapeared after he set off harvesting palm oil in a remote village on the island of West Sulawesi, Indonesia, UK newspaper the Mirror reports.

Friends and relatives began searching for him when he still hadn't returned the next day.

They reportedly found an extremely bloated python sprawled out in Salubiro's backyard on Monday night at 10pm and immediately feared the worst.

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How This 23-Foot Python Swallowed a Man Whole
WATCH: MISSING MAN FOUND DEAD INSIDE PYTHON Warning: This video includes graphic imagery.

At first the video is blurry and difficult to make out. A bunch of men standing around a python begin slicing its belly down the middle. It soon becomes apparent that something of note is inside the giant snake, but it's not immediately clear what has drawn so much attention.

Then you see it: An entire grown man, swallowed whole, lies dead inside the python.

According to local news reports, the body found inside the 23-foot-long snake turned out to be 25-year-old Akbar Salubiro, a harvester who worked on a palm oil plantation on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. He was reported missing on March 26.

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Here's How a Python Can Swallow a Man Whole
The body of the python was recovered with a body inside.   (West Sulawesi Police)

How is it possible for a man to end up in the belly of a snake? That's the question many were asking after the body of 25-year-old Akbar Salubiro was found intact inside a 23-foot reticulated python Sunday in Indonesia. (A highly graphic video shows the body's recovery.)

Here's a look at the science: First comes death. Though python attacks on humans are extremely rare, it's not difficult for a reticulated python, the world's longest snake, to kill a man. Pythons wrap themselves around their victims, crushing them. Constricting snakes like pythons don't actually suffocate their victims but kill by cutting off blood flow, which is a quicker death, reports National Geographic. "The heart literally doesn't have enough strength to push against the pressure," vertebrate ecologist Scott Boback tells the magazine.

But the BBC explains experts previously thought doing anything more than killing a man might be too difficult. Rather than chew, the snakes' flexible jaw ligaments allow them to swallow prey whole. But when it comes to humans, "the restricting factor is ... shoulder blades because they are not collapsible," says one expert. Indeed, the BBC points out size was a problem in a slightly different case, in 2005, when a Burmese python tried to ingest an alligator; the snake burst. The BBC notes stories of man-eating pythons aren't new, but the tales typically come from remote areas short on a witness as trustworthy as the one present in this case—a cell phone. A local agricultural lecturer shares his theory with the Jakarta Post: that the attack was likely a result of deforestation due to palm-oil harvesting, which imperils the snakes' "natural food sources."

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Missing farmer found inside giant python's belly in Indonesia (Video)
Residents of a village in Indonesia were thrown into shock when a missing farmer was discovered inside the belly of a giant python after the swollen snake was caught near close to the place where the man had vanished while harvesting his crops

According to Hindustan Times, the body of the 25-year-old man identified as Akbar was found when local people cut open the 23-foot python after it was found bloated and slithering awkwardly in the village of Salubiro, on the eastern island of Sulawesi on Monday, March 27, 2017.

“We were immediately suspicious that the snake had swallowed Akbar because around the site, we found palm fruit, his harvesting tool, and a boot,” a senior village official, Junaidi, told reporters.

Worried by the absence of Akbar after he had gone to his plantation on Sunday, his relatives launched a search for him to no avail.

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GRAPHIC VIDEO: Missing Man Swallowed Whole By Giant Python, Locals Pull Body Out Of Serpent's Stomach
A sickening moment when the body of a man was cut out of a seven-metre long python's stomach was captured on video and photographs

Akbar Salubiro had gone missing on Sunday after he went to harvest palm oil in a remote village on the island of west Sulawesi, Indonesia. Next evening, concerned family members and friends of the 25-year-old man went out search for him and found a giant python sprawling in Akbar's backyard.

The swelled up body of the serpent immediately raised fears that the man has been swallowed up as whole.

Villagers made the decision to cut open the stomach of the snake using an 18-inch hunting knife and the horrified locals found Akbar's lifeless body inside.

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Shocked village living in fear after man swallowed by python

This is the poor soul who was swallowed whole by a python in Indonesia this week, according to reports

Akbar, 25, was trying to harvest palm oil — so he could provide for his wife and two children — when the 23-foot serpent struck, the Tribune Timur reports.

Villagers in Central Mamuju Regency told the outlet that the young man was planning on using the money from his farming to relocate his family from a nearby town where they had been staying.

His wife, Muna, had gone there to give birth to their second child, the Tribune reported.

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Indonesian man becomes Python's dinner; police recover corpse from inside serpent!
In a shocking incident, an Indonesian man who had been missing for sometime was found dead inside the body of a python, reportedly

As per a report published in BBC, 25-year-old Akbar went missing on Sunday on the island of Sulawesi, after leaving to harvest palm oil.

Police, while searching for the man said that that they had found a huge snake they suspected had swallowed the man.

Reportedly, the python was cut open and the man's body was found.

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How do snakes eat super-sized prey – like antelopes, hyenas or humans?


The body of a 25-year-old Indonesian man was discovered inside a 23ft reticulated python on the island of Sulawesi this week, in a rare incidence of a snake attacking humans.

Reticulated pythons are the world's longest snakes, but normally eat small to medium-sized mammals by constricting their prey before swallowing it whole. Pythons are nonvenomous and aren't usually considered dangerous to humans, making this recent case extremely unusual.

Larger pythons have been known to occasionally eat large prey when it becomes available, as seen when a Dutch tourist stumbled across an enormous African rock python consuming a hyena in the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya.

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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - An Indonesian woman has been cut out of the stomach of a huge python after the snake ate her alive while she was gardening

The gruesome video shows dozens of locals surrounding the snake and dissecting its stomach to retrieve the lifeless body of the mother-of-two Wa Tiba, 54. The alarm was raised when her two children came across her sandals, machete and torch near a patch of bushes that appeared ruffled.

The boys saw the huge python which was barely able to move - having swallowed the woman whole. Villagers cut open the 23-foot python on the island of Muna, Southeast Sulawesi, to retrieve the body.

The shocking scene was captured by locals near where the victim disappeared, which has left neighbours terrified and "praying for their lives". Local police chief Hamka said: “Residents were suspicious the snake swallowed the victim, so they killed it, then carried it out of the garden.