China Scene: West

Python intruder cornered, captured and released

Staff at a local electrical appliance factory in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, captured and set free last Monday a python that had slithered into an office .

Wu, an office worker, saw the 1-m-long snake on her desk after returning from lunch. When she screamed, it flashed under her desk. Staff members spent more than two hours catching the reptile before releasing it back into the wild.