Horror video shows a dramatic intervention: Doctors operate meter-long animals from a woman's throat

Russian doctors removed a snake over three feet long from a woman's throat.

The reptile must have crawled into her mouth while she was sleeping.

• A

  video

  of a medical

  procedure

  in the Russian province of

  Dagestan

  is currently going

  viral on the

  Internet

  .

• Doctors remove a

  snake

  about four feet long

  from

  a

  woman's

  throat

  .

• The

  reptile must have

  crawled into

  the

  patient's

  mouth while she was sleeping.

Makhachkala - The scenes that

can be seen

in a

that is currently circulating on the Internet could also come straight from a new

.

The clip shows a woman

lying

on an

under anesthesia

while a

removes an elongated tube from her throat.

At the end of the tube, something almost unbelievable comes to light: the body of a

just over a meter long

, which has apparently been

pulled out of

the

's

body

.

Russia: snake crawls into the mouth of sleeping woman - video of medical intervention goes viral

Finally, you can see how a member of the

visibly disgusted, drops

the

into a waiting bucket - a real horror scenario.

But obviously the

not an excerpt from a new horror film, but the bitter reality.

As reported by the Daily Mail, the video is said to

show

an

that is said to have taken

place recently in the Russian province of

.

(

).

When a woman was taking a nap in her garden in the village of Levashi, the approximately 1.20 meter long

is said to have

crawled into her mouth - unnoticed by the sleeper.

After the woman felt uncomfortable afterwards, she was taken to the

, where,

to the great astonishment

, the

all removed the animal.

Horror video from Russia: Local people report similar cases

It is not known how long the

was inside the

and whether the

survived the medical intervention.

Local knowledge would already has reported s of similar cases in which

through the mouth and

have crawled inside of people while they were sleeping.

Older people would therefore generally advise against sleeping outdoors.

In July there was also a strange accident with a snake in the Austrian state of Styria.

Commentators who responded to the video noted that the supposed

also be a worm or a parasite.

With a length of well over a meter, these would be very considerable.

The

of

has not commented on the incident.

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A large contingent including a helicopter is looking for the animal.