Akbar Salubiro was a 25-year-old man who went missing on March 25, 2017, after setting off for harvest in a remote
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
on the western part of the island
Sulawesi, Indonesia. Akbar's remains were found two days later inside the body of a
reticulated python
The reticulated python (''Malayopython reticulatus'') is a python species native to South and Southeast Asia. It is the world's longest snake, and is among the three heaviest. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List because of its wi ...
.
Disappearance and discovery of body
The morning after Salubiro was reported missing, a
search party was sent out, and his family became worried and called the police. Later that day, the snake that had eaten Salubiro slithered into Salubiro's backyard near an oil palm plantation. People saw that it had difficulty moving due to its large belly, an official stated. Residents then cut open the belly of the snake and found Salubiro dead inside. People said they heard cries from the palm grove the night before Salubiro was found eaten by the snake.
Aftermath
The death of Akbar Salubiro was the first fully confirmed case of a reticulated python killing and consuming an adult human, as the process of retrieving the body from the python's stomach was documented by pictures and videos taken by witnesses.
Watiba 2018 & Jahrah 2022
On June 14, 2018, a 54-year-old woman named Wa Tiba, also of
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
was also eaten by a reticulated python that had slithered into her garden at her home., In 2022 a missing Sumatran Grandma from Jambi named Jahrah was found inside a Python making this the 3rd fully documented swallowing of a human
See also
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List of largest snakes
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List of solved missing person cases
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Man-eater
A man-eater is an animal that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has kil ...
s
References
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2010s missing person cases
2017 in Indonesia
Deaths by person in Asia
Deaths due to snake attacks
Deaths in Indonesia
Formerly missing people
History of Indonesia
Missing person cases in Indonesia