A HORRIFIED mother who was woken by her young son’s screams found him soaked in blood with a three-metre python biting his head.

The toddler’s mum, identified only as Tammy on social media, grabbed the huge snake off her terrified son’s face and called for help.

She had put son Tyler to bed as normal last week when the python snuck into the family home in Macksville, northern NSW.

Several hours later she awoke to her son’s desperate screams, discovering the snake had slithered into Tyler’s bedsheets on the top bunk where the boy was asleep and attacked.

A family friend Craig Baker killed the snake before posting the above pictures on Facebook, where they were shared thousands of times in 24 hours.

A spokeswoman for the Mid North Coast Local Health District told The Daily Telegraph a six-year-old boy was brought into Macksville District Hospital in the early hour of last Friday before being transferred to Coffs Harbour hospital.

He was discharged later that morning.

Dog saves owner from deadly brown snake attack Sitting in his yard in Pacific Pines, the unidentified man was chilling with his smartphone when his canine companion alerted him to the poisonous reptile just centimetres from his feet. Courtesy: YouTube/Drew S.

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