Images shared on local social media pages showed rescuers holding the massive three-metre snake after it was found before releasing it back to the wild Giant python caught after devouring and puking up a dog that made it 'sluggish'

A large python roaming a road was captured and returned to the wild after it swallowed a dog and became too slow to flee. Social media photos showed rescuers holding the massive snake after it was found.

District chief Kittichote Triamvejwutikrai said police and rescuers were alerted that the reptile had been seen moving on and off the road for several days. They later located it in a wooded area behind a hotel on Charoensuk Road in the Muang Phon district of Thailand.

The python, which was about three metres long, moved sluggishly and was easy to

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