Thursday, August 8, 2013
Escaped python kills 2 young boys in their sleep
Two victims have been identified as brothers, Noah Barthe,
5, and Connor Barthe, 7, were killed by an escaped python in their sleep at a
friend’s apartment in eastern Canada. The snake is an African rock python and
is between 5 to 6 meters long.
It escaped its enclosure in an apartment where
the boys were sleeping over, slithered through a ventilation system and fell
through a ceiling into the living room.
The boys’ deaths have shocked the northern New Brunswick
community, where friends and family have described the brothers are still
having a love for life. The police later captured the snake and will
investigate what happened.
Experts were surprised at what happened. “It’s strange, I’m
just trying to piece it together,” said Lee Parker, the facilities manager at
Ontario reptile zoo Reptilia. “ They don’t go on killing sprees … it doesn’t
make sense to me.” Pythons are among the largest snakes on Earth and use
constriction to kill, like boa constrictors.
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