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TORONTO — The python that strangled two young boys this week did not escape from the pet store below the apartment where the boys slept, as previously believed, but was a house pet kept inside the apartment where they were visiting friends, authorities in Canada said.
The 100-pound, 15-foot African rock python escaped from its enclosure in the apartment in the eastern Canadian town of Campbellton, where Noah Barthe, 4, and Connor Barthe, 6, were sound asleep Monday, Royal Mounted Police Sgt. Alain Tremblay said Tuesday.
“It was upstairs,” Tremblay said at a news conference Tuesday evening. "[It] never got out of the store.”
Full story: Python That Killed Boys Was Kept in Home, Not Pet Store