Boy defends himself by biting Cobra, leading to the snake's death
The cobra had bit into the boy's arm and was not letting go...
We rarely associate snake bites with happy endings.
And not to sound morbid, but the thing is when you hear about a venomous snake biting a child, it's plain down scary.
But this eight-year-old boy from India flipped the script on everyone.
After a venomous cobra had wrapped itself around Deepak's arm and then bit him, the young boy turned to the reptile and bit it back.
Talk about being your own hero.
This young man really was not going to sit there and let the cobra win the battle.
"It grabbed on to him while he played outside the family home and spiralled itself around his arm, before biting him and injecting its deadly poison. The boy rigorously shook his arm to release the reptile but could not move it. He gave in but instead of giving up used his own teeth to bite into its body which killing the reptile." (Mirror)
Deepak told The New Indian Express: "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 was taken to a medical centre and was put observation. He recovered fully as doctors found that the cobra gave him a dry bite.
Dry bites are when the snake strikes, but no venom is released.
"Snakebites are common in India and a study revealed more than 85% of snakebite deaths recorded in 2019 happened there." (Mirror)
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