A five-year-old boy in Australia has survived being bitten and crushed by a python the length of a car that dragged him into a swimming pool.
Beau Blake had been playing at the edge of the pool at the family home in Byron Bay, New South Wales, when the 10ft (3m) snake struck from undergrowth.
The python bit the youngster, plunged both into the water and coiled itself around one of his legs.
Rushing to the rescue, the boy’s 76-year-old grandfather, Allan, dived into the pool and scooped out Beau, still entangled with the snake.
The boy’s father, Ben, then prised him free from the reptile’s deadly grip, used to suppress prey.
“I’m not a little lad… [so] I had him released within 15-20 seconds,” he said.
Despite his ordeal Beau is said to be in good spirits and escaped with only minor injuries.
Ben told local media: “Once we cleaned up the blood and told him that he wasn’t going to die because it wasn’t a poisonous snake… he was pretty good actually.
“He’s an absolute…
