Thai woman rescued by police after 2-hour ordeal of being held captive by Python in her kitchen | Crime

Bangkok — A 64-year-old woman was getting ready to do her night dishes at her house outdoors Bangkok when she felt a pointy ache in her thigh and seemed right down to see an enormous python taking maintain of her.

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

The 13-to-16-foot-long python coiled itself round her torso, squeezing her right down to the ground of her kitchen.

“I grabbed it by the head, but it wouldn't release me,” she stated. “It only tightened.”

Pythons are non-venomous constrictors, which kill their prey by regularly squeezing the breath out of it.

Propped up in opposition to her kitchen door, she cried for assist but it surely wasn't till a neighbor occurred to be strolling by about an hour and a half later and heard her screams that authorities had been known as.

Responding police officer Anusorn Wongmalee informed The Associated Press on Thursday that when he arrived the woman was nonetheless leaning in opposition to her door, wanting exhausted and pale, with the snake coiled round her.

Police and animal management officers used a crowbar to hit the snake on the top till it launched its grip and slithered away earlier than it might be captured.

In all, Arom spent about two hours on Tuesday night time in the clutches of the python earlier than being freed.

She was handled for a number of bites however gave the impression to be in any other case unhurt in movies of her speaking to Thai media shortly after the incident.

Encounters with snakes usually are not unusual in Thailand, and final yr 26 folks had been killed by venomous snake bites, in line with authorities statistics. A complete of 12,000 folks had been handled for venomous bites by snakes and different animals 2023.

The reticulated python is the biggest snake discovered in Thailand and often ranges in dimension from 5 to 21 ft, weighing as much as about 165 kilos. They have been discovered as massive as 33 ft lengthy and 287 kilos.

Smaller pythons feed on small mammals corresponding to rats, however bigger snakes swap to prey corresponding to pigs, deer and even home canines and cats. Attacks on people usually are not frequent, although do occur sometimes.

There have additionally been deadly assaults in Indonesia, the place a woman was discovered contained in the stomach of a reticulated python that swallowed her complete in June — the fifth individual to be devoured by one of the snakes in the nation since 2017.