Went to Buy Medicine for Child... Indonesian Woman Dies After Being Bitten by Python

Mother Dies from Python Attack in Indonesia
Tragic Incident While Going to Buy Medicine for Child

A woman who left her house to buy medicine for her child was found dead after being bitten by a python.

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On the 3rd, AFP and other foreign media reported that Indonesian police revealed that Syriati (36), a woman living in South Sulawesi Province, was found dead inside the belly of a python.

Syriati left her home on the previous day (the 2nd) to buy medicine for her sick child. However, she did not return, and her husband Aiansa (30) found his wife's shoes and pants about 500 meters from their home and immediately reported her missing.

Police who responded to the report discovered the python about 10 meters from where the husband found his wife's shoes and pants. The snake was alive, and seeing its unusually swollen belly, the husband gathered villagers to cut open the snake’s belly. Inside the snake’s belly was his wife's corpse.

This is not the first time a python has swallowed a person, causing death. On the 9th of last month, Parida, a resident of a village in South Kelempang, Sulawesi Province, who said she was going out to pick and sell chili peppers, was found dead inside a python’s belly. Last year, in Tinangea village, Sulawesi Province, an 8-meter-long python swallowed a farmer, and in 2018, a woman in her 50s was found dead inside a 7-meter python’s belly in Prusia Pan Lawela village on Muna Island, Sulawesi Province.