Python bites, drags Australian boy into pool

SYDNEY—A

5-year-old boy survived being bitten, constricted and knocked into a swimming pool by a python, with his father telling media, “Aw look, it’s where we live. It is Australia.” The boy, Beau, was playing by the edge of a pool in Byron Bay when a 3-meter-long python struck from nearby vegetation, his father Ben Blake said on Friday. The python bit the child, plunged both into the water and coiled itself around a leg. The boy’s 76-year-old grandfather leapt to the rescue, diving into the pool and lifting the boy out with snake still attached. Ben Blake then pried the snake loose. The snake was released and “the naughty thing” went straight back into the vegetation.