A Nepali man who was bitten
by a cobra snake bit it back and killed the reptile in a tit-for-tat attack, a
newspaper said yesterday.
Nepali daily Annapurna Post said Mr Mohamed
Salmo Miya chased the snake, which bit him in his rice paddy on Tuesday, caught
it and bit it until it died.
"I could have killed it with a stick but
bit it with my teeth instead because I was angry," the 55-year-old Miya,
who lives in a village some 200 km southeast of the Nepali capital of
Kathmandu, was quoted by the daily as saying.
The snake, called "goman" in Nepal,
is also known as the Common Cobra.
Police official Niraj Shahi said the man, who
was being treated at a village health post and was not in danger of dying,
would not be charged with killing the snake because the reptile was not among
snake species listed as endangered in Nepal. Todayonline
No comments:
Post a Comment