Huge python grabs Thai woman in her kitchen, squeezes her two hours before she can be freed

A 64-year-old pistillate was preparing to bash her evening dishes astatine her location extracurricular Bangkok erstwhile she felt a crisp symptom successful her thigh and looked down to spot a immense python taking clasp of her.

"I was astir to scoop immoderate h2o and erstwhile I sat down it spot maine immediately," Arom Arunroj told Thailand's Thairath newspaper. "When I looked I saw the snake wrapping astir me."

The four-to-five-meter-long (13-to-16-foot-long) python coiled itself astir her torso, squeezing her down to the level of her kitchen.

"I grabbed it by the head, but it wouldn't merchandise me," she said. "It lone tightened."

In this photograph provided by Kunyakit Thanawtchaikun, a python coils itself astir Arom Arunro, squeezing her down to the level of her room successful Samut Prakan province, Thailand.

AP Photo/Kunyakit Thanawtchaikun

Pythons are non-venomous constrictors, which termination their prey by gradually squeezing the enactment retired of it.

Propped up against her room door, she cried for assistance but it wasn't until a neighbour happened to beryllium walking by astir an hr and a fractional aboriginal and heard her screams that authorities were called.

Responding constabulary serviceman Anusorn Wongmalee told The Associated Press connected Thursday that erstwhile helium arrived the pistillate was inactive leaning against her door, looking exhausted and pale, with the snake coiled astir her.

Police and carnal power officers utilized a crowbar to deed the snake connected the caput until it released its grip and slithered distant earlier it could beryllium captured.

In all, Arom spent astir 2 hours connected Tuesday nighttime successful the clutches of the python earlier being freed.

She was treated for respective bites but appeared to beryllium different unharmed successful videos of her talking to Thai media soon aft the incident.

Encounters with snakes are not uncommon successful Thailand, and past twelvemonth 26 radical were killed by venomous snake bites, according to authorities statistics. A full of 12,000 radical were treated for venomous bites by snakes and different animals 2023.

The reticulated python is the largest snake recovered successful Thailand and usually ranges successful size from 1.5 meters to 6.5 meters (5 to 21 feet), weighing up to astir 75 kilograms (165 pounds). They person been recovered arsenic large arsenic 10 meters (33 feet) agelong and 130 kilograms (287 pounds).

Smaller pythons provender connected tiny mammals specified arsenic rats, but larger snakes power to prey specified arsenic pigs, cervid and adjacent home dogs and cats. Attacks connected humans are not common, though bash hap occasionally.