Astonishing footage shows the moment a woman was found alive after a four metre-long python wrapped itself around her torso.

However, the python panicked and wrapped itself around her leg. Unable to uncoil the huge snake herself, she was forced to call emergency services.

A woman was rescued after being strangled by a python for more than two hours in Samut Prakan, Thailand, per CNN, The Guardian and Associated Press.

A four-metre-long (13ft) python coiled around a 64-year-old woman in Thailand for about two hours in her home before help arrived. The snake bit her multiple times and wrapped itself around her ...

A four-metre-long python coiled around a 64-year-old woman in Thailand for two hours in her home before help arrived. The snake bit her multiple times and wrapped itself around her, squeezing tighter ...

A MELBOURNE woman has been taken to hospital with neck injuries after her two-metre python wrapped around her neck while she was on the phone.

A MELBOURNE woman has been taken to hospital with neck injuries after her two-metre python wrapped around her neck while she was on the phone.

A 36-year-old woman has been found dead with a python wrapped around her neck in a home in the mid-western US state of Indiana which housed around 140 snakes, police said.

A MELBOURNE woman has been taken to hospital with neck injuries after her two-metre python wrapped around her neck while she was on the phone.

A Melbourne woman has been taken to hospital with neck injuries after her two-metre python wrapped around her neck while she was on the phone.