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Quite an ordeal is putting it mildly!
A five-year-old Australian boy has survived being bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by a python about three times his size.
Beau Blake was enjoying a swim at home when the 3m long (10ft) reptile struck, his father told a local radio station. The pair - still entangled - were pulled from the pool by Beau's grandfather and the boy was prised free from the animal by his dad Ben. But Beau is in good spirits and escaped with only minor injuries.
"Once we cleaned up the blood and told him that he wasn't going to die because it wasn't a poisonous snake... he was pretty good actually," his father Ben told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Friday about the incident that happened a day earlier. "He's an absolute trooper," Ben added, saying the family - who are based in the coastal town of Byron Bay in New South Wales - would monitor the bite wounds for signs of infection.
Despite the lucky escape, the dramatic saga was still quite "an ordeal", he said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63699886
A five-year-old Australian boy has survived being bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by a python about three times his size.
Beau Blake was enjoying a swim at home when the 3m long (10ft) reptile struck, his father told a local radio station. The pair - still entangled - were pulled from the pool by Beau's grandfather and the boy was prised free from the animal by his dad Ben. But Beau is in good spirits and escaped with only minor injuries.
"Once we cleaned up the blood and told him that he wasn't going to die because it wasn't a poisonous snake... he was pretty good actually," his father Ben told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Friday about the incident that happened a day earlier. "He's an absolute trooper," Ben added, saying the family - who are based in the coastal town of Byron Bay in New South Wales - would monitor the bite wounds for signs of infection.
Despite the lucky escape, the dramatic saga was still quite "an ordeal", he said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63699886