Horrified relative finds regurgitated body of grandmother after massive python crushed and ate her

The regurgitated body of a grandmother was found by a horrified relative after she was crushed and eaten by a massive python.

Maga, 74, had taken his cows to graze in a forested area in the Sumarambu Mountains, a mile from his home in Palopo town in South Sulawesi province, on August 14, but never returned home, sparking concern among his family.

The grandmother’s son, Sanaria, 39, ventured into the woods on August 15 and found blood splatters on the ground near a cabin where Maga usually stays.

Not far away, her lifeless body lay sprawled in the grass. She reportedly had bite marks on her head and ankles and was believed to have been regurgitated by a huge reticulated python.

Sanaria brought her mother back home, while emotional relatives cried hysterically over her sudden death.

Iptu Yusran Sa’buran, deputy chief of police in Telluwanua, said: ‘After residents gathered at the scene with police and also local government staff, the victim’s body was examined and it was confirmed that she was killed by a snake.

‘They had swallowed her up to her shoulders and then regurgitated her.

‘The neighbours and relatives of the deceased then searched the surrounding area and not far from there, among the bushes, they found a python snake about four metres long.’

The villagers killed the snake and carried its mangled corpse to Maga’s house to bury it there.

This comes just months after the body of another woman was found eaten alive by a giant python, also in Indonesia.

Farida, a 50-year-old mother of four, went missing while walking through the forest to sell food at a local market near her home in Kalempang village on June 6.

The python sank its teeth into her leg as it coiled around her body, suffocating her before swallowing her head first.

Farida’s husband Noni, 55, became concerned when she had not returned home in the evening and alerted other locals who began searching for her.

The next day they found a huge 20-foot-long python lying in the undergrowth, with a large bulge in its stomach.

Its huge head can be seen in a video of the scene, with its tongue protruding from its lips.

Suspecting the worst, the devastated husband and several villagers cut through the thick skin with a machete.

Farida had been buried inside the stomach of the slime-covered snake.

She was taken out and taken for a religious burial in Pitu Riawa district of Sidrap regency, South Sulawesi province.

Before Farida’s death, the last documented case of a human being eaten by a python was in 2022.

In that case, Jahrah, 54, went missing while picking rubber on a plantation in Indonesia’s Jambi province before horrified locals found a giant python with a large bulge in its belly two days later on Sunday morning, October 23.

Anto, head of 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, a 54-year-old mother of two, disappeared while tending her vegetable garden on the island of Muna in Sulawesi province. Local people organized a large search.

His sandals and machete were found a day later: about 30 metres away lay a giant python with a swollen belly.