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Woman finds 2.5-m python in Dutch hotel toilet
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-17 13:43

THE HAGUE  - A guest at a Dutch hotel found a live, 2.5 metre python in the toilet, alerting authorities who arrested four people for illegally trading in rare animals, news agency ANP said Tuesday.


A python in captivity. A guest at a Dutch hotel found a live, 2.5 metre python in the toilet, alerting authorities who arrested four people for illegally trading in rare animals, news agency ANP said Tuesday. [Agencies]
 

In Monday's incident the snake is believed to have slithered up the drain from a room below, where authorities discovered about 30 exotic animals, it reported, quoting the police.

The animals included snakes, geckos, frogs, salamanders and a baby crocodile.

Most were in boxes and bags, but two geckos were walking around freely in the room where police arrested three men and a women, all from Rome.