He said firemen had to break the cement floor of the house to locate the snake and catch it. "The python, which weighed about 20kg, was successfully caught at about 1pm," said Arrahman.

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A massive Southern African python escaped death while trying to slither through fencing at a KwaZulu-Natal conservation site.