Shocked villagers hauled away a huge python caught in a villager's back garden in Indonesia.

Locals rushed to the property in Southeast Sulawesi when resident Ami found the 27ft beast blocking the path to her guava orchard on Thursday.

Fearing the massive reptile would attack nearby homeowners, she called other villagers for assistance.

Volunteers arrived with machetes at 3pm local time to remove the serpent from the scene. They spent almost two hours battling the mammoth python before subduing it.

Footage shows around seven villagers heaving the hulking snake as they made the 10-kilometre (six miles) trip back to the main highway. However, the python had died from its injuries by the time they arrived.

A resident named Rota said: 'Ami was on the way to the garden to clear her guava orchard. When she arrived, a large python was slithering along the path.

'The snake was successfully secured without any casualties.'

Locas said it was not the first time a giant python was caught in Mabholu Village.

In 2019, a woman named Wa Ode Ndoeno, 60, nearly died after being attacked by a 33-ft python. A year earlier in the same village, a female resident Wa Tiba, 54, was recovered from the stomach of a python that devoured her.

While just last month, grandfather La Noti, 61, was attacked and eaten by a 28-ft snake while tending to his livestock in Southeast Sulawesi.

The reticulated python is found throughout Southeast Asia, where they live in forests, swamps, canals and even in cities, causing them to come into conflict with humans. The species is one of the world's largest snakes and can eat humans, cats, dogs, birds, rats and other snakes.