COIMBATORE: Forest department rescued a five-feet-long Indian rock python from a house near Thondamuthoor in the suburbs of the city, on Saturday.
According to DFO Venkatesh, following flash floods in the region, villages close to the Western Ghats were flooded, on Friday.
An Indian rock python, a non-venomous snake, suspected to have been washed away in the floods from nearby forests, entered a house belong to one Raj at Thoplipalayam village in Thondamuthoor near Mathuvarayapuram, and was hiding near the cupboard.
Raj on Saturday morning while cleaning the house panicked on seeing the snake, and ran out of the house raising an alarm.
On receiving information about the reptile, forest department personnel rushed to the spot and rescued it and later released it inside the woods close to Siruvani in the Western Ghats.
