The 64-year-old woman, named Arum, was washing dishes at her home on the outskirts of Bangkokwhen she felt several bites on her leg, she told police.
The snake then coiled around her until the woman fell to the ground. Police said she “struggled” to free herself from the snake’s coils for two hours to no avail.
The woman screamed for help, but no one responded at first, and eventually one of her neighbors heard her cries and asked for help from Police.
“We were shocked when we saw the woman tied up on the ground with the snake wrapped around her. It was really big,” said police sergeant Anusorn Wongmalee of Phra Samut Chedi police station in Samut Prakan, a province south of Bangkok.
In footage captured by police, Arum was seen sitting on the floor of a small, dark room, trapped in the snake’s body, which was wrapped around her waist.
It took rescuers about 30 minutes to free her, after which she was sent to the hospital for treatment, according to police.
The police said that The snake He then fled, she added, “We couldn’t catch him.”
According to CNN, this snake is not poisonous, but it kills by suffocation, as it wraps around its prey and squeezes tightly to restrict blood flow before swallowing its victims whole.
