Python attempts to suffocate 2-year-old boy

AN Australian toddler was attacked by a python which wrapped itself around his body and attempted to suffocate him, his terrified mother said, recalling his “blood-curdling scream”.

The two-year-old boy was chasing a ball around his Port Douglas backyard in Australia’s tropical north when the snake struck, biting his leg before looping itself around his body, his mother told the local Cairns Post newspaper.

“I heard this blood-curdling scream,” she said.