Python grabs woman in Thailand, grips her for two hours before she was freed

A huge python grabbed a 64-year-old woman, while she was preparing to dodishes at her home outside Bangkok, Thailand. She suddenly felt a sharp pain in her thigh beforelooking downto find a python taking hold of her.

Arom Arunroj told Thailand’s Thairath newspaper, “I was about to scoop some water, and when I sat down it bit me immediately. When I looked I saw the snake wrapping around me.”

The four-to-five-metre-long (13 to 16 ft) python coiled itself around her torso, squeezing her down to the floor to the kitchen.

She added, “I grabbed it by the head, but it wouldn’t release me. It only tightened.”

Pythons are non-venomous snakes, however can be even more deadly than cobras. They kill their prey by gradually squeezing the breath out of it.

After realising, the woman cried for help but it didn't arriveuntil after a neighbour happened to be walking by about an hour and half later and heard her screaming. The neighbour then called the authorities.

Responding police officer Anusorn Wongmalee said on Thursday (Sep 19)that when he arrived the woman was still leaning against her door, looking exhausted and pale, with the snake coiled around her.

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Police and animal control officers used a crowbar to hit the snake on the head until it released its grip and slithered away before it could be captured.

The old lady spent around two hours on Tuesday in the hold of a python before being freed.

(With inputs from agencies)