12ft Burmese python rescued at CU
A 12-feet-long python weighing around 18 kg has been rescued from the Chittagong University (CU) campus this afternoon.
The Burmese python was rescued from the university's Social Sciences Research Institute at 3:30pm, reports a correspondent quoting Abdur Razzak, chief security officer (acting) of the university.
He said they first discovered the python at the window of the research institute around 2:00pm and informed it to Zoology department.
On information, Rafiqul Islam, a master's student at Zoology department and a trainee researcher at the Venom Research Centre rushed to the spot and rescued the python at 3:30pm.
He said it was a non-venomous python.
The Venom Research Centre later released the python in the forest of biological faculty.
Professor Mohammad Abdul Wahed Chowdhury of Zoology department said the python might have come to the locality in search of food.
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