Woman cheats death as neighbours kill 6m python and rescue her from its coils


BALING: A single mother here cheated death after she was rescued from a python's coils at her house in Kampung Ulu Tawar Tengah, Mukim Bakai, on Saturday (May 25) evening.

In the 11pm incident, 47-year-old factory worker Halifah Othman had gone out of her house to dispose of rubbish when she was attacked by the 6m-long reptile, weighing 30kg.

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