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Python strangles student zookeeper
2008-08-27

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A university student has been strangled to death by a captive 3-meter python at a park in Venezuela where the young man was working as an intern.

Park manager Javier Hernandez says the 29-year-old violated park rules when he took the snake out and held it on his own while working the night shift.

Hernandez said Monday that the biology student's body was found with a bite from the Asian python on his left wrist.

He said the intern, Erick Arrieta, was strangled to death by the python early Saturday and that the snake was found elsewhere in a hallway at the Caracas park's terrarium.

He said the young man didn't have permission to take the snake out and that it's the first time such an incident has occurred at the park


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