Woman freed after hours of being strangled by a python

Kocha Olarn and Chris Lau, CNN

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai female has been rescued by constabulary aft being strangled by a python for much than 2 hours.

The 64-year-old woman, who gave her sanction arsenic Arom, was doing nan dishes astatine location connected nan outskirts of nan Thai superior erstwhile she felt respective bites connected her leg, she said successful a constabulary video obtained by CNN that captured nan attack. “The snake conscionable changeable guardant and spot me,” she said.

The python past wrapped itself astir her until she fell to nan ground. She struggled to free herself from nan snake’s tightening coils for 2 hours without success, according to nan police.

The female cried retired for help, but nary 1 answered initially. Eventually, 1 of her neighbors heard her distressed calls and sought assistance from police.

“We were shocked to spot nan woman was tied down connected nan level pinch nan python wrapping astir (her),” Police Major Sergeant Anusorn Wongmalee of nan Phra Samut Chedi Police Station successful Samut Prakan, a state southbound of Bangkok, told CNN. “The snake was really big.”

In footage filmed by police, Arom was seen sitting connected nan level of a mini acheronian room, trapped successful nan grip of nan python, which had wrapped itself astir her waist.

It took rescuers astir 30 minutes to free her, aft which she was sent to nan infirmary for treatment, according to nan police.

The snake escaped afterward, constabulary said, adding: “We couldn’t drawback it.”

Thailand is location to 250 snake species, including 3 varieties of pythons — nan reticulated, Burmese and Blood — according to Thai National Parks.

Pythons are not venomous, but they termination by suffocation, coiling themselves astir their prey and squeezing tight to constrict humor travel earlier swallowing their victims whole.

According to Thailand’s National Health Security office, immoderate 12,000 group were treated for venomous snake and animal bites successful nan state past year. Twenty-six group died from snake bites during that period, charismatic figures show.

The onslaught connected Arom is nan 2nd specified incident successful nan state to pull world attraction successful caller weeks. Last month, a man had his testiclebitten by a python while sitting successful nan bathroom.

He managed to past nan brushwood byhitting nan snake pinch a cleaning brushwood earlier calling a information defender to thief region it, according to section media.