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.
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