Thai woman rescued from grip of 4-metre-long Python
Bangkok.- A 64-year-old woman was rescued from the grip of a 4-meter-long python inside her home in Thailand, police confirmed.
Arom Arunrot was washing dishes at about 10pm on Tuesday night when she felt something bite her thigh. She looked down to find the python, which then tightened around her, and she struggled with it for about two hours.
The incident occurred in Samut Chedi district of Samut Prakan province, southeast of Bangkok, police sergeant Anusorn Wongmalee told EFE by phone.
In a video shared by the police, the woman is seen sitting on the floor with the python coiled around her waist and leg, while the officers tried to help her.
Arom, who works as a cleaner at a children’s hospital, said she tried to fight the snake, which rescuers estimate was at least 4 meters long and weighed over 20 kilograms. She called out to her neighbors for help, but with no luck.
Eventually, a passerby heard her and called the police, who forced their way inside and found the woman weak and pale.
Arom, who had been living alone since her husband died last year, was taken to hospital for a checkup. While bites from a python are not venomous, they can cause infection.
The snake escaped into the forest behind the house, Thai media reported.
Monsoon rains in the country between June and October cause snakes to take refuge in shops, businesses and homes, both in rural and urban areas.
Thailand has some 230 species of snakes, of which around 30 are venomous, such as the king cobra, the Malayan krait and the Eastern Russell’s viper.
In Bangkok alone, during the rainy season, the fire service receives 150-200 calls a day related to snake sightings and removals.
Nearly 70 percent of the snakes captured by firefighters are pythons, which can reach 6 meters in length and which strangle their victims with their bodies before swallowing them whole.
