A python about 12 feet long came up in the net of local fishermen on the Mahananda river in Tetulia upazila, Panchagarh. They were fishing the river along the Indian border on Tuesday morning when the large snake surfaced in the net, and their shouts drew a crowd, Prothom Alo reports.
Rashida Parvin, a reserved-seat member of Banglabandha union parishad, said the forest department was called once people realised it was a python. Forest staff rescued the snake from Banglabandha in the afternoon.
Nurul Huda, beat officer at the forest department's Tetulia upazila office, told Prothom Alo the python weighed 10 to 12 kg. On the orders of senior officials it was sent to Singra National Park in Dinajpur on Tuesday afternoon.
Pythons are protected wildlife in Bangladesh. When one turns up in a fishing net, a field or near a home, the rule is to call the forest department rather than kill it, as the people of Tetulia did.
Photo: Danleo / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5)
Source: Prothom Alo
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