This Woman Survived After Being Wrapped In A Large Python For Two Hours

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JAKARTA - A Thai woman was rescued by police, after being tailed by a python for more than two hours.

The woman who said her name was Arom (64) washing dishes at her house on the outskirts of the Thai capital, when she felt several bites in her leg, he said in a video CNN obtained police recording the attack.

"The snake shot forward and bit me," he said, citing CNN Sept. 19.

The python then wrapped him around until he fell to the ground. He struggled to escape from the OVERlapping snake for two hours without a result, according to police.

ARAM also screamed for help. At first, no one answered. Finally, one of his neighbors heard his call and then contacted the police and asked for help.

"We were surprised to see the woman not moving on the floor with a python wrapped around (herself)," Police Sergeant Anusorn Wongmalee of the Phra Samut Chedi Police Station at Samut Prakan Province told CNN on Thursday.

"The snake is huge," he continued.

In the footage taken by police, Arom is seen sitting on the floor of a small room, caught in the grip of a python, which has wrapped around his waist.

It took about 30 minutes for the rescue team to release him, after which he was rushed to the hospital for treatment, according to police.

The snake fled afterwards, police said, adding: "We couldn't catch it."

The attack on ARM was the second incident in the country that has attracted attention in recent weeks. Last month, a man was bitten by a python while sitting in the bathroom.

He managed to survive the attack by hitting the snake with a cleaning brush before calling security officers to help get him out, according to local media.

Thailand is home to 250 species of snakes, including three types of pythons, reticulated snakes, Burmese snakes and Blood snakes, according to Thailand's National Park.

Pythons are not venomous, but are capable of killing by strangling, wrapping themselves around their prey and squeezing them strongly to narrow blood flow before swallowing their victims intact.

According to Thailand's National Health Safety Office, some 12,000 people were treated for venomous snake bites and animals in the country last year. Twenty-six people died from snake bites during that period, according to official data.