The three-meter-long snake coiled around the boy’s leg before dragging him into a swimming pool.
The 76-year-old grandfather of the child immediately dove into the water to extract his grandson. The father, also present, then succeeded in freeing his son from the grip of the serpent. The child eventually escaped with a minor bite on the ankle.
“Beau was walking by the pool. I think the snake was in the bushes looking for prey, like a bird, when it went after Beau,” the father said. child on Friday on Australian radio channel 3AW.
The family then released the python into the wild, but “it returned to the scene of the crime”, the father said, adding that pythons were a fact of life in this region, located some 800 km north of Sidney. “It’s Australia,” he said.