Snake drags boy into pool

A 5-year-old Australian boy has had a terrifying run-in with a python, with the snake attacking him and dragging him into his family’s pool. Beau was playing around the pool with his brother at his family’s Byron Bay home when he was set upon by a 3m python that was lurking in the garden. “Just out of the blue probably a three-metre python decided to wrap his mouth around his Achilles, his ankle,” the boy’s father Ben Blake said. “They both rolled into the pool and the python wrapped himself around him.” Blake said he believed the python was lying in wait for a “victim” to come along, such as a bird, but instead attacked his son. Beau’s grandfather, Allan, 76, jumped in the pool after the boy. “He passed him up to me and then I had to separate the two.” It took Beau’s father about 20 seconds to separate the boy from the snake. Fortunately, Beau is doing well.