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Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake subsequently bit the snake
to death, a local newspaper reported on Thursday (Aug. 23).
After being bitten by the snake,
while he was working in his rice paddy on Tuesday, 55-year-old Mohamed
Salmo Miya chased the snake, caught it and bit it until it died, the
Annapurna Post reported, according to Reuters.
"I could have killed it with a stick but bit it with my teeth instead because I was angry," Miya was quoted as saying.
Miya, who lives in a village some 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast
of the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, was receiving treatment at a
village health post at the time of the news report and was not in
danger of dying from his snakebite.
He
will not be charged with killing the snake, a local police official
said, because cobras (called "goman" in Nepal) are not listed as
endangered in the country.
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