<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A woman in Indonesia's Jambi province was killed and swallowed whole by a python, according to local reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jahrah, a rubber-tapper reportedly in her 50s, had made her way to work at a rubber plantation on Sunday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>She was reported missing after failing to return that night, and search parties sent out to find her. A day later villagers found a python with what appeared to be a large stomach.</div><div><br></div><div>Locals later killed the snake and found her body inside.</div><div><br></div><div>"The victim was found in the snake's stomach," Betara Jambi police chief AKP S Harefa told local media outlets, adding that her body appeared to be largely intact when it was found.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the victim's husband had on Sunday night found some of her clothes and tools she had used at the rubber plantation, leading him to call on a search party.</div><div><br></div><div>After the snake - which was at least 5m (16ft) long - was spotted on Monday, villagers then caught and killed it to verify the victim's identity.</div><div><br></div><div>"After they cut the belly apart, they found it was Jahrah inside," Mr Harefa told CNN Indoneisa.</div><div><br></div><div>Though such incidents are rare, this is not the first time someone in Indonesia has been killed and eaten by a python. Two similar deaths were reported in the country between 2017 and 2018.</div><div><br></div><div>Pythons swallow their food whole. Their jaws are connected by very flexible ligaments so they can stretch around large prey.</div><div><br></div><div>One expert had earlier told the BBC that pythons typically eat rats and other animals, "but once they reach a certain size it's almost like they don't bother with rats anymore because the calories are not worth it".</div><div><br></div><div>"In essence they can go as large as their prey goes," said Mary-Ruth Low, conservation &amp; research officer for Wildlife Reserves Singapore.</div><div><br></div><div>That can include animals as large as pigs or even cows. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>