WHEN it comes to animals in our urban environment, it is quite uncommon to discover a python - what more 29.
This was a claim made online, that 28 baby pythons and their mother were discovered in a drain behind a Shah Alam restaurant.
Is this true?
VERDICT:
TRUE
Twenty-eight baby pythons and their mother were captured by a team of rescuers in a drain behind a restaurant in Section 20, Shah Alam on Wednesday (Aug 7) night.
Selangor Fire and Rescue Department deputy director (Operations) Ahmad Mukhlis Mukhtar said they received a distress call about the snakes being spotted at the location at 9.56 pm and a team of six rescuers from the Shah Alam fire and rescue station was mobilised.
"At the scene, they found what appeared to be 28 newly-hatched baby pythons along with their mother, slithering in the drain,” he said in a statement on Thursday (Aug 8).
Ahmad Mukhlis said the reptiles were all captured within 12 minutes before being released at a safer place.
