8-year-old boy bites, kills venomous cobra that attacked him
The youngster, identified only as Deepak, killed a cobra by biting the snake twice as it launched its own attack on the boy in the remote Pandarpadh village in Jashpur district, about 215 miles northeast of the city of Raipur,Deepak had been playing in the backyard of his house Monday when the venomous snake sprung upon him.
“The snake got wrapped around my hand and bit me. I was in great pain,” Deepak said, according to the report. “As the reptile didn’t budge when I tried to shake it off, I bit it hard twice. It all happened in a flash.”Luckily, he didn’t need it. The snakeApproximately 100,000 people annually die from snakebites in India.“Deepak didn’t show any symptoms and recovered fast owing to the dry bite when the poisonous snake strikes but no venom is released,” snake expert Qaiser Hussain told the outlet.Deadly snake encounters are common in the country.
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