Gruesome footage shows an Indonesian farmer being cut from the belly of a 7-metre-long python, which crushed him and swallowed him whole.
Father-of-three Peco, 30, went to a palm plantation to collect sap for making brown sugar when the deadly beast attacked him in North Luwu Regency shortly after sunset on Tuesday.
The giant snake suffocated the man by coiling around his body and crushing him to death.
It then dislocated its deadly jaws to take the length of the six-foot-tall man into its throat.
Peco’s concerned brother-in-law Wawan went in search of his relative when he failed to return to his home in Mamea hamlet of Malimbu village, Sabbang district.
The family member saw the snake with its intestines bulging and rushed back to raise the alarm.
Graphic footage shows how village leaders arrived and cut open the reptile to reveal the slime-covered corpse of the palm plantation hand shortly before midnight.
Wawan said, “We joked that we could be eaten by a snake at night. They pose a danger that everyone knows about.
“I can’t explain how my brother got caught out. He was very experienced.’
Graphic footage shows how village chiefs arrived and cut open the reptile to reveal the slime-covered corpse
The farmer was cut from the snake’s body after being crushed by it and swallowed whole
The snake’s flesh was pulled back to reveal the deceased father of three
A piece of cloth was placed over the spot where the group had cut the python. It was then pulled back to reveal the man’s body
Police who arrived on the scene confirmed that Peco had been killed by the python.
They are not looking for anyone else due to the death and his wife Dewi and their three children have been informed.
Sabbang police chief Ipda Jusman said: “The snake was found and then residents were called 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 world’s largest pythons and crocodiles.
The vast areas of virgin forest provide the perfect environment for the snakes to hunt without limits and grow to enormous lengths.
However, attacks on people have increased in recent years as palm sugar and rubber plantations have increased. Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers of palm sugar, a natural sweetener extracted from the sap of palm trees.
Shocking photos show Peco’s corpse partially exposed after locals cut open the snake
“After successfully removing the victim’s body from the python’s stomach, residents took the victim’s body to the funeral home,” the local police chief said.
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 20-foot snake easily overpowered the struggling little woman and wrapped itself around her body. It slowly squeezed the breath from her lungs until she passed out.
Just 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 Palopo City in South Sulawesi, when a snake caught and killed her.
In July, mother-of-five Siriati, 30, 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, mother-of-four Farida, 50, disappeared while walking through the forest to sell food at a local market near her home in Kalempang village.
The killed python sunk its teeth into her leg as it coiled around her body, suffocating her before swallowing her head first.