On the night of the 6th, the 3.5-meter-long "Amimenishiki snake" that had been bred as a pet in an apartment house in Yokohama City escaped, and police are guarding the area and will search for the snake from the morning of the 7th.
Around 9:30 pm on the 6th, a man living in an apartment complex in Nase-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama reported to the police that his snake had escaped.
According to police, the escape was a yellow "Reticulated Python" that the man kept as a pet, about 3.5 meters long and weighing about 13 kilograms.
Reticulated pythons are not poisonous, but they have a very strong tightening force, and there is a risk of wrapping around people and choking them.
It is said that the man kept the snake in a cage in the room with the permission of Yokohama City in 2017, but when the man returned home on the night of the 6th, the door of the cage opened and the window of the room It means that there was also.
Police will be guarding the area with a police car and will search for snakes from the morning of the 7th.
The site is a residential area about 2 km west of JR Higashi-Totsuka Station, and there is an elementary school nearby.