Python grabs Thai woman in her kitchen, squeezes her for 2 hours before she can be freed
Encounters with snakes are not uncommon in Thailand, and last year 26 people were killed by venomous snake bites
A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her.
The four-to-five-meter-long (13 to 16 ft) python coiled itself around her torso, squeezing her down to the floor of her kitchen.
“I grabbed it by the head, but it wouldn’t release me,” she said. “It only tightened.”
Pythons are non-venomous constrictors, which kill their prey by gradually squeezing the breath out of it.
Propped up against her kitchen door, she cried for help but it wasn’t until a neighbour happened to be walking by about an hour and a half later and heard her screams that authorities were called.
