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Last Update: Tuesday, May 3, 2005. 7:29am (AEST)
Autopsy carried out on Barossa snake handler

Police are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine how a well-known snake handler in South Australia's Barossa Valley died.

A work colleague found Erik Attmarsson's body at his home in Tanunda on Sunday.

Police ordered an autopsy to find out whether he had been strangled by a pet scrub python at the house.

Reptile dealer Tim Mensforth says the 28-year-old man moved from Sweden almost a year ago to work at a venom supply company in the Barossa.

"Oh they're very upset because the people who worked with him out there discovered his body when he didn't turn up for work," he said.

"I did speak to one of them... and they were more than upset out there."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1358312.htm