Giant 23ft python crushes man, 35, to death and swallows him whole while walking home from party alone

A MAN has been gorged alive by a giant python as he walked home from a party before horrified villagers discovered his body in the reptile’s stomach. Hasim Lumbessy, 35, who spent the night drinking at a rural bar in North Maluku, Indonesia, walked alone in the early hours of Monday, July 27. Villagers cutting open the 23ft python that swallowed Lumbessy, 35. Credit: ViralPress Hasim was walking home from the bar at 3am local time before being attacked by a giant snake. Credit: ViralPress He was walking along a forested path at around 3am when the 23ft monster leapt out of the undergrowth clamping its jaws around his leg. Hasim was unable to break free from the coiling reptile which eventually crushed him to death. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! Relatives had begun to search the route on Monday afternoon after he failed to return home, according to Handres, Sula Islands Police Chief. Handres said: “In the middle of the journey, they saw blood on the ground and then found the victim’s belongings, including a backpack, sling bag and sandals. “The witnesses became concerned and documented the items. They decided to return to the village to inform the other locals. They then conducted a wider search.” The search party focused on the woodland near Fatliwangka Road after following a trail of flattened grass leading into the forest and found a distortedly swollen snake. Gruesome footage shows the locals slicing the belly of the beast open and finding Hasim’s body inside. The villagers returned his body to his family for religious rites. Most read in The Sun Sula Islands police has issued a warning to those working in their gardens or walking alone in the forest. “This area remains a wildlife habitat,” Police Chief Handres said. “Therefore, we urge the public to be careful when going to their gardens; if possible, they should go to the forest in pairs rather than alone, to minimise the risk of similar incidents.” It follows a similar incident in the exact same province just a a month ago when motorcycle rider Lifas, 25, was reportedly attacked by a 22ft python when he stopped on the side of a dirt road in North Maluku. Meanwhile another incident saw Elisabet Yamalau, 44, killed by a 25ft python when she was tending her cattle. She was only discovered when her husband found her partially inside the snake’s mouth. The reticulated pythons can be found all throughout Southeast Asia and their diet ranges from cats, dogs, birds, humans and even other snakes. They are the largest snake species in the world, which means they can squeeze humans to death. Indonesia’s tropical climate and the rich food resources in the forests allows their population to balloon. Ron Lilley, the “Snake Whisperer”, lives in Bali, Indonesia, and is a founding member of the Indonesian Herpetological Society. He told The Sun: “Pythons are ambush predators, waiting in the undergrowth besides tails where animals and people walk by.” They can strike and immediately wrap themselves around a human, he said, and constricting them until they can no longer breath. “No crushing of bones is needed” Ron had some survival tips if you ever are in danger zone with pythons. “It may be possible to quickly raise one’s arm to prevent the snake wrapping itself only around one’s neck and face.” Ron recalled one time he was attacked by this deadly reptile in an enclosure in the UK. “I was on my own. It bit me on the shoulder but I managed to hit it on the nose with a scrubbing brush before it had a chance to wrap its coils around me.. Fortunately it let go immediately and I retired to the other end of the cage.” “It’s teeth went through four layers of clothing and caused deep wounds.” “[My advice is] never walk alone in python country,. A few drops of alcohol may cause a python to release its bite if poured into the side of its mouth.” Comment now