Horrifying moment villagers cut open a giant python and discover their missing friend inside who had been swallowed whole after being crushed to death <br /> <br />This is the sickening moment a dead man was cut out of a seven-metre long python's stomach after being swallowed whole. <br />Akbar Salubiro, 25, went missing on Sunday night after setting off to harvest palm oil in a remote village on the island of west Sulawesi, Indonesia. <br />Concerned friends and relatives found a giant python sprawled out in Akbar's own back garden the next evening - and feared he had been suffocated and swallowed. <br /> <br />Akbar's lifeless body was found inside the serpent after horrified locals sliced open its belly using a 18-inch long hunting knife. <br /> <br />Neighbour Satriawan - who knew Akbar - said: 'He was found in the location of the garden. <br />'Initially Akbar set out from his home to go to harvest palm. After not returning to his home, people looked for him.' <br />Akbar's wife, Munu, was away at the time and only found out when pictures and video emerged in the news, local media reported. <br /> <br />Village secretary Salubiro Junaidi said: 'People had heard cries from the palm grove the night before Akbar was found in the snake's stomach. <br />'When the snake was captured, the boots Akbar was wearing were clearly visible in the stomach of the snake. <br />'Resident cut open the belly of the snake and Akbar was lifeless.' <br />Reticulated pythons are boa constrictors that suffocate their victims before swallowing them whole.
