A five-year-old Australian boy was dragged into a swimming pool by a python！and miraculously survived the horrific attack after his grandfather lifted him out.
Beau Blake was swimming with his brother at home when a 3-meter-long python?emerged from the bushes in the garden and bit the boy as he was walking around the edge of the pool.
The reptile tightly wrapped itself around the boy and dragged him inside the pool.?
Ben Blake, the boy's father, told a local outlet that they saw a big black shadow come out of the bush, and before they hit the bottom (of the pool), it had completely wrapped around his young son's leg.
Blake said that he thinks the?python was "sitting there waiting for something to come along."
But a tragedy was averted when the boy¨s 76-year-old grandfather jumped into the pool, grabbed both the boy and the snake, still entwined, and handed them up to Ben.
The father separated the two after about 15 to 20 seconds, in what he described as "somewhat of an ordeal."? ?
Beau was later treated for puncture wounds to his leg caused by the python¨s teeth.??
"Very shaken up but grateful all is ok .. we¨ve had a visit to the hospital to have his wounds dressed and lots of cuddles for my boys tonight. Parents the unthinkable can happen! Keep your eyes peeled," the child¨s mother, Tesse Ferguson, wrote in a?Facebook post.?
Blake said his father has encountered about 10 snakes on his property over the past 36 years.
Australia is home to 15 species of pythons. These snakes are not venomous and kill their prey by coiling their bodies around it before suffocating and swallowing it.??
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