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This viral social media message features a picture of a large snake, that going by its
appearance, has recently consumed a sizable meal. The message claims that the snake swallowed
a woman near Durban North, South Africa in early June 2013. According to the message,
the incident was witnessed by a South African reporter named Linda Laina Nyatoro and it
was this reporter who first sent out the photograph. The image, which has sweeped across social
media sites, appears to show a python that has just finished a human-sized meal.
While suggestions about where the picture may have been taken range between Asia, Africa
and America, the general consensus is that this snake's food was human.However Hox-slayer
claims: The claims in the message are untrue. The very same picture has been circulating
in other contexts since at least September, 2012. Linda Laina Nyatoro did post the image
on her Facebook page in June 2013, but states in comments that she did not witness the attack
as claimed in the message.