‘Four corpses in python’
sZPA Jakart Four human corpses were found inside a giant python crushed by a bulldozer in a forestry project in north Bengkulu, southwest Sumatra, the daily newspaper. “Terbit,” reported yesterday. Two of the bodies appeared to have only recently been swallowed as they still were in shirts and trousers, the report said, quoting project officials.
The newspaper said the python was one of two, each about 25 metres long, which blocked the path of the bulldozer. The bulldozer driver battled the snakes for more than an hour before one w'as killed. The other python escaped, the newspaper said. (The 1978 edition of the “Guinness Book of Records” says that the Python reticulatus, found in Indonesia, is the longest species of snake in the world. An " authenticated specimen was 10m long.)
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Press, 3 December 1979, Page 6
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