Snake caught (again) on campus

Rachel Chia, News Editor

The snake, which looked to be 2 metres long, was captured by a pest control team at around 2.30am. PHOTO: SAM WEN JUN

The slippery surprises on campus do not seem to end.

A reticulated python was caught and removed from Hall 16 early Friday morning (25 Nov), after being spotted by a resident.

First-year School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences student Sam Wen Jun, 21, said he left his fifth-floor room in Block 16D at about 1.50am when he saw the snake just outside. It looked to be 2 metres long.

He called campus security, and a pest control team captured the snake at around 2.30am, NTU said in a statement. No one was injured.

This was the second time in two months that a snake has been spotted by students on campus. Last month, the Nanyang Chronicle reported that a similarly long python was captured in a ground-floor toilet in Hall 15.

In an earlier statement, NTU said wild animals are a common sight on campus because of the abundance of forested areas nearby, where they may live.

Last year, a python and a king cobra were also found fighting on the street beside a forested area near Research Techno Plaza.

(Additional reporting by: Khairul Anwar)