In of the most unusual incidents, a 60-year-old man lost his life after a snake bite in Gujarat’s Mahisagar district but that was not all before he died, he bit the snake back and killed the reptile too.
According to reports, the incident took place on Saturday afternoon in Ajanwa village in Santrampur tehsil over 120 kilometres from Gujarat’s Vadodara.
“Parvat Gala Baria was standing near a spot where maize was being loaded from a field onto a truck. A snake slithered out and while others there ran away, he continued to stand claiming he had caught snakes earlier,” the village head was quoted in a report.
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“He grabbed the snake which retaliated by biting him on the hands and face. However, Parvat bit back and killed the snake too,” he said.
He was rushed to a hospital in Lunawada town and then shifted to a bigger medical facility in Godhra but died later in the day from the venom injected into him by the snake, sarpanch Baria said.