Python exaggerated
NZPA-AFP Tokyo A 25-metre man-swal-lowing python reported from Indonesia two weeks ago turned out to be just an ordinary reptile about 10 metres long, a Japanese newspaper reported yesterday. “Terbit,” a Jakarta newspaper reported that a 25-metre python contained four human corpses when it was crushed by a bull-
dozer in a forestry development project in North Bengkulu, south-west Sumatra.
The “Asahi Shimbun,” however, sent a reporter to the scene who said, in a dispatch from Bengkulu, Indonesia, that the snake was an ordinary giant python about 10 metres long which was killed and eaten by workers at the forestry project.
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Press, 15 December 1979, Page 6
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