Cobra bites man, man bites snake back, snake dies
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 on Thursday.
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Nepali daily Annapurna Post said 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 125 miles away from Nepali, the capital of Kathmandu, was quoted by the daily as saying.
“A snake charmer told me that if a snake bites you, bite it until it is dead and nothing will happen to you,” Mohammed Salmodin told the BBC.
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.
