[Photos/Videos] Villagers cut open a giant python and discover their missing friend inside

Villagers have cut open a seven-metre python to find the body of a man who went missing on Sunday.

Akbar Salubiro, 25, had not been seen since setting off to harvest palm oil in a remote village on the island of west Sulawesi in Indonesia.

A search found the giant python sprawled out next to his garden with the 25-year-old’s boots clearly visible in its stomach, Tribun Timur reports .

Villagers then used a large knife to cut open the snake’s belly slowly revealing the father-of-two’s body.

Village secretary Salubiro Junaidi said: ‘People had heard cries from the palm grove the night before Akbar was found in the snake’s stomach.

‘When the snake was captured, the boots Akbar was wearing were clearly visible in the stomach of the snake.

‘Resident cut open the belly of the snake and Akbar was lifeless.’

Reticulated pythons suffocate their victims before swallowing them whole.

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