Thai herpetology team hunts down python that terrorised elderly woman


- Photo: The Nation/ANN

BANGKOK: Herpetologists have been attempting to hunt down the reticulated python that wrapped itself around a 64-year-old woman inside her rented room in Pak Khlong Bang Pla Kot subdistrict of Samut Prakan’s Phra Samut Chedi district on Tuesday (Sept 17) but without success.

Police officers from Phra Samut Chedi Police Station and rescuers from Poh Teck Tung Foundation rushed to the five-roomed rental property at 10pm on Tuesday.

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