A
farmer in northern India reportedly chewed off a snake’s head in revenge after
the reptile bit him, with his attending doctors saying they had never come
across such a bizarre case, a local media reported on Wednesday.
The
incident took place in Uttar Pradesh state’s Hardoi district at the weekend,
when the man identified only by his first name, Sonelal – was rushed to a
government health centre after locals found him unconscious.
The
man told villagers that he was grazing his cattle in the fields when the snake
bit him, which however made him so angry he chewed off its hood before spitting
it out.
“The
snake bit me, so I held its head and chewed it off, it died, then I brought it
back to the village. I tore off its head again,’’ Sonelal told the ANI news
agency.
Sanjay
Kumar, a doctor who treated him said he was amazed that the man survived after
biting the hood, which could have contained venom, assuming it was a poisonous
snake.
However,
the local media said that the doctors failed to find any marks of snakebite on
his body.
“I’ve
never seen such a case in my life. The man was all right even after biting a
snake,’’ Kumar said.
Witnesses
who claimed they saw him ingest part of the snake said they suspected the man
was addicted to drugs.
Medical
officials believe that the man’s abnormal reaction could only be explained if
he was under the influence of drugs.
DPA/NAN
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