A Zambian truck driver was forced to kick, bite and stab his way from the clutches of a giant python.
Kelvin Katoka, 25, unknowingly ran into the giant snake, while driving his excavator in the bush at a copper mine in north western Zambia.
"Within no time, the python was all over my body and it then threw me on the ground," he said from his hospital bed, where he has been recovering for nearly a month.
Rock pythons are Africa's largest snake and can grow up to 23 feet long. They have been known to kill and swallow whole antelope, wildebeest and even crocodiles.
Attacks on humans are rare.
Mr Katoka managed to bite the python as it coiled around him and held on in a "long struggle".
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