Woman found dead with python around neck

A 36-year-old woman has been found dead with a python wrapped around her neck in a home in the mid-western US state of Indiana, which housed around 140 snakes, police said.

The body of Laura Hurst was discovered on Wednesday in the house in Oxford, a state police spokesman, Sergeant Kim Riley, said in a statement.

Hurst, of Battle Ground, Indiana, had an eight-foot (2.4-meter) reticulated python wrapped around her neck.