Citizens 'Startled' by 2m Python Appearing in Front of Gyeonggi Northern Government Complex

A 2-meter-long kukkyeong-i appeared on the road in front of the northern government office building in Gyeonggi Province on the 16th.

A roughly 2-meter-long kukreong-i (rat snake) appeared on the road in front of the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Northern Office.

According to the fire authorities on the 16th, at around 11:55 a.m., a 119 emergency call was received reporting "a 2-meter-long snake appeared" on the road in front of the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Northern Office in Singok-dong, Uijeongbu-si, Gyeonggi-do.

The fire authorities who responded confirmed it was a kukreong-i and captured it, then released it into a nearby mountain.

A citizen who witnessed the snake said, "I was walking to have lunch and almost stepped on the snake," adding, "This is the first time I've seen such a large kukreong-i."

According to the Gyeonggi Northern Fire and Disaster Headquarters, from 2020 until June of this year, there have been 6,675 reports of snake sightings in the northern Gyeonggi area.

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