Snake attacks are rare and the creatures generally shy away from people unless threatened, say experts.
At around 4am on Tuesday, a woman was bitten on her left leg by a python while she was looking for her cat on the second storey of a Sembawang Housing Board block. The bite left her bleeding profusely.
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