1.0 link 224057 <![CDATA[Python Strangles 2-Year-Old To Death ]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/python-strangles-2yearold_n_224057.html (AP) -- A 2-year-old girl was strangled by a 12-foot Burmese python Wednesday inside a central Florida home, authorities said.

The snake was a family pet, not one of a fast-growing population of nonnative pythons that has been spreading in the wild in southern Florida.

Lt. Steve Binegar, of the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, said the toddler was strangled by the snake in the town of Oxford, about 50 miles northwest of Orlando. Pythons can kill by wrapping themselves around a...

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