Astonishing moment python wraps itself around woman’s torso

Astonishing footage shows the moment a woman was found with a four metre-long python wrapped around her torso as she endured a four-hour suffocation attack.

Astonishing footage shows the moment a woman was found alive after a four metre-long python wrapped itself around her torso.

Arrom Arunroj, a 64-year-old grandmother from Thailand, endured a terrifying four-hour suffocation attack before being freed from the massive snake on Tuesday night.

She had just finished eating dinner and was washing dishes in her outdoor kitchen when she felt a sudden stab of pain in her right thigh.

The four metre-long python wrapped itself around the 64-year-old woman’s torso. Picture: Viral Press

She looked down thinking it was a monitor lizard that had bitten her – only to see a massive four metre reticulated python snaking up her leg.

Arrom said she panicked and tried to yank the python’s head away from her. However, she fell over, which allowed the 20kg, nonvenomous snake to wrap itself tightly around her torso.

The frail widow said she struggled for more than two hours, unable to lift herself from the floor, before her screams were finally heard by a neighbour who then called the police who arrived at her home in Samut Prakan, Thailand, just after 10pm on September 17.

Dramatic footage shows an injured Arrom sitting helplessly on the ground as the mammoth python brutally constricted her waist and torso.

The horror unfolded on Tuesday night in her home in Samut Prakan, Thailand, where a neighbour heard her screams for help and alerted police. Picture: Viral Press

Arrom was driven to the hospital for treatment, where her relatives arrived to check on her.

“I work as a housekeeper at a children’s hospital in Bangkok,” she told Viral Press.

“I had been renting this room with my husband for many years, but he passed away last year. “I have been living alone since then.”

Arrom said she didn’t notice the snake until it had bit her.

“I looked down and it was coiling around my leg. I was scared that the python would kill me, so I screamed at the top of my lungs until a passer-by heard me. I have never been so terrified in my life.”

Arrom said the snake would not let go of her and is sure it was just “waiting for me to die so it could eat me”.

“So I just prayed and did my best to stay alive.”

Rescue volunteers gave the exhausted Arrom first aid. Her arms had gone pale and numb after the suffocation attack, and she had wounds on her leg from where the python had sank its fangs.

She endured a terrifying four-hour suffocation attack. Picture: Viral Press

The 20kg snake bit her leg before wrapping itself around her waist and torso. Picture: Viral Press

Police Sergeant Major Anusorn Wongmalee, commander of the Crime Prevention and Suppression Unit of the Phra Samut Chedi Police Station, said police received the report at 10pm.

“The scene of the incident was a single-storey rental apartment with five rooms built next to each other. In the fourth room where the victim lived, the door was locked,” the police boss explained.

‘The police and rescue workers could hear her weak cries from inside so we broke down the door to rescue her. What we saw shocked us.

‘The elderly woman was being squeezed by a huge python that must have weighed more than 45lbs (20kg).

“We used whatever tools we could to try to pry her free from it. It took more than 30 minutes to remove the snake. It was then released back into the forest behind the room.”

The reticulated python is found throughout Thailand but it is rare for them to attack humans. The species is smaller than in neighbouring countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia.

They are non-venomous but kill their prey by stunning them with a bite before wrapping around them and crushing them to death.