Viral video shows Indonesian villagers wrestling eight-metre-long giant python
- In June, a woman was found dead inside in the belly of a giant python near where she vanished while tending her vegetable garden on Sulawesi island
A viral video showing a gigantic python wrapping itself around an Indonesian villager before being wrestled to the ground and caged has been watched more than a million times.
The villagers initially thought the giant snake, which was resting by the river, was just an old log before one of them touched the serpent, triggering it into action.
The video, shot by villager Ronal Efendi Coto on November 22, shows the man fighting as others try to pry him loose from the python’s notorious death grip.
After calling for help and managing to subdue the serpent, the men put it into a cage in Pucuang Anam village in Sumatra and asked a local zoo for help. But the zoo declined to take in the python, citing overcapacity.
“For now we are just keeping it in the cage so people can come and have a look”, said Coto told AFP, adding that the snake was eight metres long.