A grandmother was eaten alive by a 22-foot-long python in Indonesia.

Jahrah, 54, disappeared while collecting rubber from a plantation in Jambi province last Friday night.

Her worried family called the emergency services who began searching local woodland in the Tanjung Jabung Barat regency.

Horrified locals found a giant python stretched out in a clearing among trees with a large bulge in its tummy two days later on Sunday morning, October 23.

They feared that Jahrah had been swallowed by the giant reptile and cut open its stomach, which confirmed their fears.

Footage shows how the serpent was sliced open and the petite grandmother was found curled up in the digestive tract. Blue tarpaulin then covered the corpse of the predator and its victim.

Anto, Head of the Terjun Gajah village where Jahrah lived, said the snake is believed to have attacked Jahrah by biting her and then wrapping itself around her to suffocate her. She was then swallowed whole in a painful ordeal that would have taken at least two hours from her head to her toes.

The official said: "The victim did not come home after saying goodbye to her family to go to the garden collecting rubber from trees on Friday. Her family then reported her missing to the local authorities, and a search has been carried out since then.

"Residents killed the snake and dissected its stomach contents. Everyone was astonished. It turned out that the woman we were looking for was in the snake's stomach."

Anto said no residents witnessed when Jahrah was eaten by a snake as she went to the garden alone.

He said the conditions in his village were now tense as a number of giant pythons have been seen in the village.

Previously residents tried to catch a snake that was longer, measuring around 27ft. However, they failed to catch the snake because they were overwhelmed by its enormous size.

Anto added: "Previously there were three people who found and tried to catch a 27ft long snake, but failed.

"Villagers are now worried that bigger snakes are still in the forest. The presence of this giant snake has also swallowed two resident goats."

Indonesia has a large population of giant reticulated pythons, like the one that ate Jahrah. They live in remote forests and feed on wild animals, occasionally humans.

In March 2017, Akbar Salubiro was cut from the stomach of a python after being eaten alive on the island of West Sulawesi.

A grandmother was eaten alive by a 22ft-long python in Indonesia.

Jahrah, 54, disappeared while collecting rubber from a plantation in Jambi province last Friday night.

Her worried family called the emergency services who began searching local woodland in the Tanjung Jabung Barat regency.

Horrified locals found a giant python stretched out in a clearing among trees with a large bulge in its tummy two days later on Sunday morning, October 23.

They feared that Jahrah had been swallowed by the giant reptile and cut open its stomach, which confirmed their fears.

Footage shows how the serpent was sliced open and the petite grandmother was found curled up in the digestive tract. Blue tarpaulin then covered the corpse of the predator and its victim.

Anto, Head of the Terjun Gajah village where Jahrah lived, said the snake is believed to have attacked Jahrah by biting her and then wrapping itself around her to suffocate her. She was then swallowed hole in a painful ordeal that would have taken at least two hours from her head to her toes.

The official said: 'The victim did not come home after saying goodbye to her family to go to the garden collecting rubber from trees on Friday. Her family then reported her missing to the local authorities, and a search has been carried out since then.

'Residents killed the snake and dissected its stomach contents. Everyone was astonished. It turned out that the woman we were looking for was in the snake's stomach.'

Anto said no residents witnessed when Jahrah was eaten by a snake as she went to the garden alone.

He said the conditions in his village were now tense as a number of giant pythons have been seen in the village.

Previously residents tried to catch a snake that was longer, measuring around 27ft. However, they failed to catch the snake because they were overwhelmed by its enormous size.

Anto added: 'Previously there were three people who found and tried to catch a 27ft long snake, but failed.

'Villagers are now worried that bigger snakes are still in the forest. The presence of this giant snake has also swallowed two resident goats.'

Indonesia has a large population of giant reticulated pythons, like the one that ate Jahrah. They live in remote forests and feed on wild animals, occasionally humans.

In March 2017, Akbar Salubiro was cut from the stomach of a python after being eaten alive on the island of West Sulawesi.