Australia: Five-year-old rescued from python by dad and elderly grandad

A five-year-old Australian lad has survived being bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming excavation by a python astir 3 times his size.

Beau Blake was enjoying a aquatics astatine location erstwhile the 3m agelong (10ft) reptile struck, his begetter told a section vigor station.

The brace - inactive entangled - were pulled from the excavation by Beau's aged gramps and the lad was prised escaped from the carnal by his dada Ben.

But Beau is successful bully spirits and escaped with lone insignificant injuries.

"Once we cleaned up the humor and told him that helium wasn't going to dice due to the fact that it wasn't a poisonous snake... helium was beauteous bully actually," his begetter Ben told Melbourne vigor presumption 3AW connected Friday astir the incidental that happened a time earlier.

"He's an implicit trooper," Ben added, saying the household - who are based successful the coastal municipality of Byron Bay successful New South Wales - would show the wound wounds for signs of infection.

Despite the fortunate escape, the melodramatic saga was inactive rather "an ordeal", helium said.

"[Beau] was conscionable walking astir the borderline [of the pool]... and I judge the python was benignant of sitting determination waiting for a unfortunate to travel along... and Beau was it."

"I saw a large achromatic shadiness travel retired of the bush and earlier they deed the bottom, it was wholly wrapped astir his leg."

With "no self-preservation whatsoever", Beau's 76-year-old gramps Allan jumped successful the excavation and passed the lad and snake to Ben.

"I'm not a small lad... [so] I had him released wrong 15-20 seconds," Ben said.

Ben past held connected to the python for astir 10 minutes arsenic helium desperately tried to calm his children and his father, earlier releasing the snake backmost into the vegetation.

"He went backmost to the country of the crime, the naughty thing."

Ben told the vigor presumption pythons were a information of beingness successful the area, astir 8 hours northbound of Sydney, saying "look...it is Australia".