A python was released in Gohinkhali Reserve Forest hours after it was rescued from Rangabali upazila of Patuakhali last evening.

Forest department officials with the help of locals rescued the 10-foot python from Charkasem Kheya Ghat area, reports our Patuakhali correspondent quoting Md Jahangir Hossain, range officer of Rangabali of the department.

The snake was released in the reserve forest around 8.00pm yesterday, he added.

It might have come to the locality in search of food, the official said.