A 3-metre-long pet Burmese python broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom yesterday at a Central Florida home, police said.

Authorities say the snake was identified as a ball python. Its owner said it had been missing for more than a month. It’s illegal to have these snakes in Omro, so the snake’s owner was fined.

A sleeping Australian boy awoke to a real nightmare when he found a python wrapped around his arm, biting him in the dark. It happened around 1:30 a.m. Feb. 8 in Whiteside, and the traumatized boy ...

RCMP work at the scene of a fatal Python attack on Monday Aug. 5, 2013 at Reptile Ocean in Campbellton, N.B. Two young boys were killed by a python snake as they slept in an apartment above an ...

Monday, August 5, 2013 1 min to read CAMPBELLTON, N.B. RCMP say two young boys are dead after they were strangled by a python that escaped its enclosure at a pet store in Campellton, N.B.