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Python caught in fishing net

By Our Staff Reporter

Tirunelveli March 11. Forest department personnel have caught a 7-foot python, which got entangled in a net spread in a channel by farmers for fish.

Forest department sources said Nadukallur farmers spread the net last night and when they went to retrieve the net in the wee hours today, they found a python in the net. After catching the reptile with the help of some more villagers, they informed the forest department this morning.

The snake was brought to the office of the District Forest Officer to be taken to the thick jungles beyond Courtallam.

The department personnel have so far caught more than 125 pythons around Tirunelveli, which were washed away from the Western Ghats by floods in 1992.

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