Villagers and news reports say a 25-year-old Indonesian man was swallowed whole by a python on the island of Sulawesi.
A six-minute video on the website of the Tribun Timur publication shows villagers slicing open the python's carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the victim, named Akbar.
Junaedi, the secretary of Salubiro village in West Sulawesi province, told The Associated Press that villagers began searching for Akbar on Monday night after realizing he hadn't returned from his palm oil crops.
Junaedi said Wednesday that the search party found scattered palm oil fruit, a picking tool and a boot, and then spotted the engorged python.
He said: "When its stomach was cut, we first saw his boot and legs near the neck. It seems he was attacked from behind."
Tribun Timur posted the video of people cutting open the snake at night. In the video, people crowd around as the snake's skin is pulled back, revealing an intact body laying on its side.
Reticulated pythons typically eat small to medium-sized mammals and squeeze their prey to death before swallowing it whole, according AP. Attacks on humans are extremely rare.
Warning the footage may be disturbing:
