Gran, 57, crushed to death by 16ft python while working on farm as snake tried to swallow her head first
A GRAN was crushed to death by a huge 16ft python before the beast tried to swallow her head first.
Hapsah, 57, from Indonesia, was tapping rubber trees when the serpent attacked her at a plantation on August 27.
The 16ft snake overpowered the struggling woman and wrapped itself around her body in Muaro Jambi Regency, Jambi province.
It slowly squeezed the breath out of her lungs until she passed out and is believed to have tried to swallow her whole.
Her alarmed husband M Safri, 66, who worked with her on the same plantation, went to search for her when she failed to come home that afternoon.
Safri heard rustling noises in the undergrowth and was horrified to find the reptile coiled around his beloved wife.
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Sungai Gelam Police Chief Iptu Usaha Sitepu said: "When he approached the source of the sound, he saw that the victim had been constricted to death by a python and was about to be swallowed head-first.
"He knew she was already dead, so he could only pull at the snake's tail and hit it until it loosened its grip."
Enraged locals arrived at the scene to hunt down the python.
The vengeful mob found the snake burrowing near the roots of a tree and mercilessly beat it to death.
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The traumatised widower ran back to his community earlier to ask the villagers to help him move Hapsah's corpse.
Village head Amdi said: "Hapsah was almost swallowed entirely by the snake, with only half of her body left to engulf when her husband managed to free her.
"After the snake escaped, residents immediately searched for it and killed it. It was massive. It was taken to the village to be shown to the community after it was killed."
The grieving farmer took Hapsah's body back with the help of the villagers to prepare for a funeral.
Heartbroken, he said: "I returned home from the plantation earlier, but if I had known my wife would be attacked like this, I would have stayed to protect her."
It comes just days after another Indonesian gran was tragically slaughtered by a killer python.
Maga, 74, from Palopo City, had taken her cows to graze in a forested area in the nearby Sumarambu mountains, when the beast pounced on her.
Her 39-year-old son discovered his mum which just half of her remains left after being half-swallowed by the predator.
Angered villagers slayed the python responsible and even kept its mangled corpse as a trophy.
The reticulated python is the world's longest snake - and the third heaviest serpent around.
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It's native to southeast Asia and often lurks in forests, swamps, canals and even terrorises cities where they have pounced on humans.
The can eat humans, cats, dogs, birds, rats and other snakes.
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