A giant, 22-foot python in Indonesia has swallowed a 54-year old woman. A shocking video was released on social media showing the exact moment the gruesome discovery was made. 

It is too horrifying to post here. 

Local police had been searching for the victim, who was identified as Jahra, 54, after her husband reported her missing when she failed to return home from a trip to a plantation in Jambi province, where she had gone to collect rubber on Sunday.

According to Betara Police Chief AKP Herafa, Jahra’s husband had gone and searched the area around the plantation and found his wife’s jacket, headscarf, sandals, and a knife.

Authorities, neighbors, and other local people formed a search party and searched for the missing woman the next day. They returned to the same area where the husband had discovered Jahra’s belongings, and this time, they stumbled across the massive snake, whose midsection was swollen to suggest that it had swallowed something very large.

The snake was still alive.

Villagers took the video as the men tried to kill the giant snake and opened it up. It shows one of the men pinning the head of the python on the ground using a tree branch and others bashing the snake above the swollen mid-region.

The disturbing video then shows volunteers carefully cutting the snake open and finally revealing the body of the missing grandma, which the snake had swallowed.

Anto, the head of the village, told a news outlet that everyone was shocked to find that the woman they had been searching for had been in the snake’s stomach. According to him, the snake most likely bit the woman, then wrapped itself around her body to suffocate her before eventually swallowing her. He estimated that the snake could have taken two hours to finish the process.

Unfortunately, Sunday’s incident was just one of many similar horrifying incidents in Indonesia involving pythons. Experts have blamed increased deforestation for the rising cases of people getting eaten by snakes in the Southeastern Asian country.

The python that swallowed Jahra was not the biggest in the village, as villagers had previously spotted another 27-foot-long python. Authorities said that the 27-foot-long one was not captured, and the locals lived in fear that bigger snakes were still in the heavily forested area.

Jahra’s unfortunate death comes a few years after another woman, who was 55 at the time, was swallowed by another giant snake in 2018. The incident happened in the Muna District located in Sulawesi. Locals also recorded a video of the incident and posted it on social media, where it went viral.

A year before that, in 2017, another person was swallowed by a 23-foot-long python. The victim was a 25-year-old palm oil farmer identified as Akbar, and he was found a week after he disappeared from another village in Sulawesi. His body was retrieved intact, and just like Jahra, it is likely that the snake strangled him before swallowing him.

Experts believe deforestation accounts for why snakes in the region are forced to seek alternative food sources. It is unusual for pythons to eat humans, and as in all the above cases, the pythons first ensure that the victim is dead before swallowing them.