Fantasia, a 20-foot-long Burmese python, briefly escaped from her cage in the Brooklyn Children's Museum this week.

An escaped python killed two children in their sleep in eastern Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday.

Canadian officials hold a news conference to discuss the deaths of two boys killed by a python snake during an overnight sleepover. The snake reportedly escaped from its enclosure at a reptile ...

This story is a tragedy with a side of nightmare fuel: children killed in their sleep by a python that escaped from an exotic pet store.

Two young boys have been killed by a python that escaped its enclosure at a pet store in Canada, police say. The brothers, aged five and seven, were sleeping in a friend's apartment above the pet ...

(CNN) — Police in Canada are looking into the deaths of two young boys who appear to have been strangled by an exotic snake.The boys, ages 5 and 7, were found dead Monday morning at an apartment ...

Two young boys were killed by a python that escaped from its enclosure at a pet store in Canada, police said yesterday. The brothers, aged five and seven, were sleeping in a friend's apartment ...

A python that escaped from its pet shop enclosure has strangled two young boys who were sleeping above the store.

The two boys who died after an African rock python escaped its enclosure were "two typical children who enjoyed life to a maximum," a great uncle said Tuesday, as the investigation into their ...

A python strangled two children in their sleep in eastern Canada after escaping from a reptile shop and slithering through a ventilation shaft, police said Monday.