THE family of two boys believed to have been killed by a python that had escaped from an exotic pet store have asked for privacy as they wait for the result of the autopsies.
Dave Rose, the great-uncle, of Noah and Connor Barthe, aged five and seven, appealed for the media to respect the family's privacy, and described their final hours with emotion.
The family had been guests of the pet store owner, Jean-Claude Savoie, and his young son, and had spent the day playing in a paddling pool, eating barbecue and riding a tractor in the small town of Campbellton in the east of the country.
"So, a super day," he said. "And then after a long day late into the night, they got home for the sleepover and the two families stayed together until midnight."
The brothers stayed on with their young friend for a sleepover above the pet shop, and Savoie said he found the boys' bodies on Monday morning.
"I have many mixed emotions right now. It's ridiculous. I can't believe this is real," he told Radio-Canada.
Police believe the python slithered out of its enclosure in a pet store and got into the ventilation system through a grille that opened directly into the beast's terrarium.
From there it slithered upstairs to the apartment owned by the pet store's manager, dropped through a broken pipe and - police believe - choked the children.
The boys had been asleep in the living room while their friend had been sleeping in another room.
Autopsies were expected on Tuesday but at this stage it is believed the boys were strangled by the snake, which is of a species that constricts its prey and squeezes out its life.
The snake was euthanased and sent for a sent for a necropsy in Fredericton, Sergeant Alain Tremblay of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police said.
Police said the snake was a rock python, also known as a python sebae, the biggest snake species in Africa. It is not poisonous, but is hugely strong and capable of killing large animals including antelopes.
It is not known as a man-eater in the wild, but it is widely feared.
Canadian media said the snake was four metres long and weighed around 45 kilos.
"It's strange, I'm just trying to piece it together," added Lee Parker, the facilities manager at an Ontario reptile zoo named Reptilia.
He told CBC that pythons only kill to eat.
"They don't go on killing sprees ... it doesn't make sense to me," he said.
Former pet shop owner Laurent Brisson told Radio-Canada that heat can also attract such snakes and that hunting is simply a matter of instinct.
The RCMP major crimes section is carrying out a criminal investigation but has not brought charges.
The incident sparked strong reactions in Campbellton, a town of just over 7000 people on Chaleur Bay in northern New Brunswick.
Deputy Mayor Ian Comeau expressed sorrow over the accident and noted that there had been opposition to the presence of the exotic pet store in the town.
He pledged the city ordinance that allowed it would immediately come under review.
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