A huge monitor lizard was caught after crawling into a car engine to escape the blistering heat in Thailand.<br /><br />The 4ft long reptile was seen by a security guard scurrying across the car park in Pathum Thani, central Thailand last Sunday (17/05) afternoon.<br /><br />It darted under the vehicle to find some shade as temperatures outside passed 35C. <br /><br />However, when the driver Anong Chanthajorn, 51, returned to his car to drive home he was alarmed by the scratching around from inside the engine.<br /><br />He opened the bonnet and found the lizard inside before calling rescue volunteers. <br /><br />They struggled for 30 minutes to remove the reptile, which had lodged itself between the engine parts.<br /><br />The security guard Somchai Charoensomaryu, 47, said he was staking out the car waiting for the lizard to emerge.<br /><br />He said: "I was walking around the parking lot, periodically patrolling the area then I saw the lizard run under the car. I watched closely in case it came back out, then I told the driver when he returned.''
