Kathmandu: 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. 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 200 km (125 miles) 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.
"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 (125 miles) 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.
© Thomson Reuters 2012
