Python Strangles Circus Worker in Russia
By Associated Press | January 25, 2007
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — A 18-foot python escaped from its cage at a traveling circus and strangled an employee, police in the southern Russian city of Stavropol said.
The body of a woman who cared for animals at the small circus was found near the glass enclosure with signs of suffocation and remnants of snakeskin on her neck, the regional branch of the Interior Ministry said.
