Python swallows worker

A 25-year-old Indonesian man has been swallowed whole by a python on the island of Sulawesi, villagers and news reports said. A six-minute video on the website of the Tribun Timur publication shows villagers slicing open the python’s carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the dead victim, named Akbar. Junaedi, the secretary of Salubiro village in West Sulawesi province, said villagers began searching for Akbar on Monday night after realising he hadn’t returned from working on his palm oil crops the previous day. The search party found scattered palm oil fruit, a picking tool and a boot, and then spotted the engorged 7m-long reticulated python. ‘‘When its stomach was cut, we first saw his boot and legs near the neck,’’ he said. ‘‘It seems he was attacked from behind because we found a wound on his back.’’