This is the horrifying moment a missing woman was found eaten alive by a giant python after locals pulled her out of the snake’s belly.
Farida, 50, a mother of four, disappeared while walking through the forest to sell food at a local market near her home in the village of Kalempang, Indonesia, on June 6.
The python sank its teeth into her leg as it coiled around her body and suffocated her before swallowing her head first.
Farida’s 55-year-old husband Noni became worried that she had not returned home that night and alerted other locals who began searching.
The next day, they found a gigantic 20-foot-long python lying in the brush, with a large lump in its stomach. In a video of the scene you can see his enormous head, with his tongue protruding from his lips.
This is the horrible moment Farida, 50, a mother of four, was found eaten alive by a giant python
Locals found the gigantic 20-foot-long python lying in the bush the next day, with a large lump in its stomach.
The villagers used a blanket to protect Farida’s modesty as they carried her out of the snake’s stomach.
Suspecting the worst, the devastated husband and several villagers hacked away at the thick skin with a machete.
Farida had been buried inside the snake’s stomach covered in slime. She was taken out and taken away for a religious burial in Pitu Riawa District of Sidrap Regency, South Sulawesi Province.
Noni said: ‘I always regret letting my wife go out alone. If he had been with her that day, the snake would not have dared to touch her.
‘I feel sorry for the suffering he went through. I feel sorry for our family…’
Suardi Rosi, head of Kalempang village where Farida and her family lived, said: “The victim’s husband searched for his wife in the nearby forest area because she had not been home for a day.
‘He found a snake with a big stomach. He immediately suspected that the python had eaten his wife.
The devastated husband and several villagers cut away the thick skin with a machete.
The python sank its teeth into her leg as it coiled around her body and suffocated her before swallowing her head first.
Farida was transferred and taken for a religious burial in Pitu Riawa District of Sidrap Regency, South Sulawesi Province, by villagers.
The villagers carried Farida out of the jungle and put her in a car to take her to her husband’s house before she was buried.
Several other towns came to help capture the python.
A python attack has never happened in the village before, but local leaders have now warned people not to walk alone in the forest.
«Later, several other towns helped him catch the python. The body of his wife was found in the stomach of a snake. She was taken to her house before being buried.
‘This had not happened before in our town. We have warned everyone to be careful when walking in the woods. Women should be accompanied by someone.’
Indonesia has a large population of giant reticulated pythons in its vast, dense rainforest, where they can thrive. Unlike neighboring Southeast Asian countries, urban developments have not limited its growth.
The last documented case of a human being eaten by a python was in 2022, also in Indonesia.
In that case, Jahrah, 54, disappeared while collecting rubber from a plantation in Jambi province before horrified locals found a giant python lying in a clearing between trees with a large lump in its belly two days later, the Sunday morning, October 23.
Anto, head of the Terjun Gajah village where Jahrah lived, said the snake is believed to have attacked Jahrah by biting her and then wrapping itself around her to suffocate her. She was then swallowed whole in a painful experience that would have taken at least two hours from head to toe.
In 2018, another woman was eaten alive by a python. Wa Tiba, 54, a mother of two, disappeared while she was checking her garden on the island of Muna, Sulawesi province. The local population organized a huge search.
His sandals and machete were found a day later: a giant python with a swollen belly lay about 30 meters away.