Cobra dies after being bitten by eight-year-old boy in India
Eight-year-old Deepak was happily playing in the backyard of his house in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district when he had the scare of his life. A cobra suddenly wrapped itself around his arm and sank its fangs into his flesh.
Deepak was in agony from the snakebite and unable to shake the reptile off. That’s when his survival instincts took over. He bit the venomous snake back, and managed to kill it on the spot.
“The snake got wrapped around my hand and bit me. I was in great pain. As the reptile didn’t budge when I tried to shake it off, I bit it hard twice. It all happened in a flash,” Deepak said.
When he told his parents about the snake bite, the boy’s family rushed him to a medical centre, where he was administered anti-venom and kept under observation for a day.
An examination of Deepak’s injury led doctors to conclude that he sustained a “dry bite”, meaning the cobra did not release any venom.
The boy was discharged from hospital and is fit as a fiddle, reports said.
