A huge monitor lizard was caught after roaming through a deserted hotel.<br /><br />Security guards heard the reptile rummage though a toilet on the ground floor of the building in Phitsanulok, northern Thailand on April 27.<br /><br />They believed it had ventured into the building, which was closed due to the coronavirus, to escape a flash flood that occurred the earlier night.<br /><br />Rescue workers arrived and worked with the security guards to drag the 5ft long serpent out of the bathroom by using a stick to poke it.<br /><br />But that startled the monitor lizard and caused it to run to hide behind vases where it was stuck next to the fence.<br /><br />The rescue team eventually wrestled the beast - estimated to weigh around 100lbs - before tying it down and carrying it onto a waiting car to be driven away back to a nearby lake.<br /><br />The exhausted rescuer worker said that it was the biggest monitor lizard he and his team had ever encountered. <br /><br />He said: "We have never faced this size of monitor lizard before. It was so big and heavy that it required three men just to carry it to the truck."
