PICTURE: Woman Hospitalised After Giant Python Emerges From Toilet, Attacks Her

A 57-year-old woman was brutally attacked by a giant snake in her own home, Samkok, Thailand.

An unusual incident occurred when Rampeung Onlamai got out of the shower and was immediately attacked by the snake that hid in the toilet. The python bit the woman on her right hand and even attempted to pull her back down the toilet so it could eat her for dinner.

But Rampeung grabbed a nearby broom to fend it off and screamed for her daughter’s help who rushed to her rescue and pried the python’s head off her hand. After the unsuccessful attack the python eventually slithered back down the toilet. 

The woman was rushed to hospital where, where she had to have 20 stitches in her right hand. She is now recovering in hospital while the snake is being hunted by local authorities.

Python is a genus of non-venomous pythons found in Africa and Asia. Thailand home to 175 species of snakes, 48 of which are deadly and although pythons are not venomous, large pythons can inflict very serious bites, sometimes requiring stitches.