Giant python battles rescuers for 20 minutes

ALOR SETAR: After a 20-minute showdown, the Civil Defence Force (APM) managed to catch a 4m-long python which had just indulged in a hearty goat breakfast.

Baling APM officer Lt Mohd Faizol Ab Aziz said the snake had slithered into a pond after devouring the large goat in Kampung Pokok Setol.

“We faced difficulties capturing the snake because it slithered into the pond after eating the goat,” he said yesterday.

Mohd Faizol said they eventually managed to subdue the 35kg serpent after a 20-minute battle.

Standing victorious: Two APM personnel restraining the snake after it ate a goat in Kampung Pokok Setol in Baling, Kedah.

He advised villagers to contact the APM or other relevant agencies when encountering dangerous reptiles, emphasising that these situations should not be handled alone.

The incident was not the first case where large snakes were captured in Baling this year.

In January, APM personnel caught a 5m-long python that had swallowed a wild boar in a rubber plantation in Kampung Charok Bakong.

Then in February, a man stumbled upon three monocled cobras at his furniture shop in Kampung Haji Abbas, requiring APM personnel to battle it out for about 30 minutes before they managed to secure the dangerous snakes.

In early October, a woman who was fishing caught a colossal 80kg python tangled in her fishing net in Kampung Sungai Tembak.