Incredible pictures show a three-year-old boy riding a giant PYTHON during a FLOOD. <br /><br />The enormous 20ft long snake had been kept as a pet at the family’s home in Thanh Hoa province, northern Vietnam.<br /><br />Horrific floods swamped the country this week, causing hundreds of thousands of homes to be submerged and so far killing at least 54 people.<br /><br />But the youngster, named Truong, could not contain his excitement as his parents took the chance to let the snake play in the ankle-deep water filling their flooded yard in the Ha Long commune in Ha Trung district.<br /><br />Doan immediately leapt into the deadly creature and straddled its back to begin riding it - giggling adorably as he ‘’giddies up’’ like a horse on the 80kg beast. <br /><br />Pictures of the incident went viral with many claiming they were edited - but the lad’s family replied with a video proving it was real. <br /><br />The boy’s aunty, An Nguyen, said: ‘’He is three years old and the python is 80kg.<br /><br />‘’The family have had the python for four years as a pet and it is very gentle.<br /><br />‘’It was a rainy day and the water flooded to the edge of the yard. So they put the python in there to play and relax.’’<br /><br />The floods lashing Vietnam this week are the worst in the country’s history with at least 54 dead and dozens more missing.<br /><br />The heavy rain in the central and northern regions has disrupted travel in some areas, limiting the rescue attempts for the missing.<br /><br />Hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, while vast amounts of live stock have also been killed.
