Two brothers, Noah and Connor Barth, age five and seven, have been tragically strangled to death in their sleep by a massive 16-foot python that escaped from a pet store below the apartment where the children were staying. The boys were spending the night with Jean-Claude Savoie, who lives above the Reptile Ocean pet store that he owns in the tiny New Brunswick city of Campbellton in Canada. 'I thought they were sleeping until I (saw) the hole in the ceiling. I turned the lights on and I (saw) this horrific scene,' Jean-Claude Savoie, owner of pet shop said. '(The snake) went through a ventilation system. I don’t understand how it did it. It went through the ceiling... and the snake fell through the living room from the ceiling,' he said. The snake is not usually handled by anyone in the store and Mr. Savoie said he does not know how it escaped its cage in the pet shop to his apartment where the boys were sleeping. He said he has owned the giant snake for more than a decade. 'My body is in shock. I don't know what to think,' he told Global News. The horrifying deaths of the two children shocked residents of the small city of 7,400 in northern New Brunswick.