A 20-kilo python has just been caught after swallowing a 15-kilo goat in the northern province of Lang Son.
A python is caught with a 15-kilo goat in stomach in Lang Son Province on August 8
A farmer in Huu Lung District's Tan Lap Commune was looking for a missing goat when seeing a python lying in a brush with an abnormally large belly on August 8, local authorities said.
The python was three metres long and weighs nearly 20 kilos.
According to the local authorities, pythons have been found several times on mountains in the area where people are raising goats.
The pythons have eaten many goats here and once found people will kill them to cook medicinal paste, local authorities said.