A Thai woman has somehow survived a terrifying encounter with a massive python after the 16-foot snake coiled around her waist as she was washing dishes, then held her tightly for two hours.
Arom Arunroj, 64, was cleaning in her kitchen on the outskirts of Bangkok on Tuesday night when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python gripping her, Thailand’s Thairath newspaper reported.
“I was about to take some water and when I sat down I was immediately bitten,” Arunroj told the outlet. “When I looked, I saw the snake was wrapping around me.”
“I grabbed him by the head, but he wouldn’t let go,” he continued. “He just tightened.”
The snake continued to coil around Arunroj’s waist until she could no longer stand, forcing her to lean against the kitchen door as she screamed for help.
A neighbor finally heard her screams about 90 minutes later and quickly alerted authorities.
Chilling footage showed rescuers arriving to find Arunroj, exhausted and pale, sitting on the ground with the constrictor still wrapped around her.
Police and animal control officers were forced to hit the snake on the head with a crowbar to finally get it to free Arunroj from its clutches.
The woman was treated for several bite wounds, but was otherwise unharmed, at least physically.
Meanwhile, the snake ended up slithering away before it could be captured, police said.
Pythons, which are not venomous, kill their prey by gradually squeezing it to death.
While encounters with snakes are not uncommon in Thailand, python attacks on humans are rare.
Smaller pythons often feed on mammals such as rats, but larger snakes typically hunt pigs, deer, and domestic dogs and cats.
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