Terrifying footage shows the moment an Indonesian farmer was cut from the belly of a 23ft python which crushed him and swallowed him whole.
Peco, 30, a father of three, entered a palm plantation to collect sap to make jaggery when the killer beast pounced on him in North Luwu Regency shortly after dusk on Tuesday.
The giant snake suffocated the man by coiling around his body and crushing him to death.
He then dislocated his deadly jaws to take the length of the 5-foot-3-inch-tall man down his throat.
Wawan, Peco’s worried brother-in-law, went out to look for his relative when he failed to return home in Mamea village in Malimbu village, Sabbang district.
The relative saw the snake with its guts bulging and rushed back to raise the alarm.
Graphic footage shows how village chiefs arrived and opened the reptile to reveal the slime-covered corpse of the palm plantation laborer shortly before midnight.
Wawan said: ‘We used to joke that a snake could eat us at night. They are a danger that everyone knows.
‘I can’t explain how my brother got caught by one. He had a lot of experience.’
Graphic footage shows how village chiefs arrived and cut open the reptile to reveal the slime-covered carcass.
The farmer was cut from the snake’s body after it crushed him to death and swallowed him whole.
The snake’s meat was removed to reveal the deceased father of three.
A piece of cloth was placed over the spot where the group had cut the python. He then pulled back to reveal the man’s body.
Police who arrived at the scene confirmed that Peco was killed by the python.
They are not looking for anyone else in the death and have told his wife, Dewi, and their three children.
Sabbang Police Chief Ipda Jusman said: “The snake was found and after that, they called the residents and together they removed the victim’s body from the snake’s stomach.”
‘After successfully removing the victim’s body from the python’s stomach, the residents took the victim’s body to the funeral home. He will be cremated today.’
Indonesia, a vast archipelago in Southeast Asia, is home to some of the largest pythons and crocodiles in the world.
The vast areas of virgin forest provide the perfect environment for snakes to hunt unrestricted and grow to great lengths.
However, in recent years there have been an increasing number of attacks on humans as sugar palm and rubber plantations have increased. Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers of palm sugar, a natural sweetener derived from the sap of palm trees.
Shocking footage shows Peco’s corpse partially exposed after locals cut open the snake
“After successfully removing the victim’s body from the python’s stomach, the residents took the victim’s body to the funeral home,” said the local police chief.
In August this year, grandmother Hapsah, 57, was crushed to death by a huge python while working on a farm in Muaro Jambi Regency, Jambi province.
The 16-foot snake easily overpowered the struggling little woman and wrapped itself around her body. It slowly knocked the breath out of his lungs until he passed out.
A few days earlier, Maga, 74, had taken her cows to graze in a forested area in the Sumarambu Mountains, about a mile from her home in the South Sulawesi town of Palopo, when a snake found her. He caught and killed her.
In July, Syriati, 30, a mother of five, was visiting her brother to go to the market together to buy medicine when she was eaten alive by a python in Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi.
A month earlier, Farida, 50, a mother of four, disappeared while walking through the forest to sell food at a local market near her home in Kalempang village.
The slain python sank its teeth into her leg as it coiled around her body and suffocated her before swallowing her head first.