Boy's best friend python (Reuters) Updated: 2006-06-04 10:02
Six-year-old Cambodian boy Oeun Sambat plays with his best
friend, 5-metre-long and six-year-old female python named Chamreun or "Lucky" in
the village of Sit Tbow in Kandal province, some 50km (31 miles) east of Phnom
Penh June 3, 2006. Superstitious villagers in the impoverished southeast Asian
nation are flocking to see the boy, who they believe has supernatural powers and
was proudly the son of a dragon in a former life. The female python came to live
with Sambat in year 2000. [Reuters]
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