Snake Dies After Being Bitten by One-Year-Old Child
A one-year-old boy in India's Bihar bit a cobra to death and recovered after hospital treatment, BBC Bangla reported.
A one-year-old boy in India's Bihar bit a cobra to death and recovered after hospital treatment, BBC Bangla reported.
A snake's lifespan varies with species and surroundings, from 5-15 years on average to about 40 years for pythons.
Volunteers rescued a 12-foot python from a haystack in Sharankhola, and forest officials released it into the Sundarbans.
Three people bitten by snakes in separate incidents in Pangsha, Rajbari, are under treatment at the upazila health complex.
Snakes shed their outer skin two to four times a year to grow and to get rid of parasites, in a painless process called ecdysis.
Hundreds of devotees took part with snakes in a traditional Nag Panchami festival at Singhia Ghat in Samastipur district, Bihar.
Every monsoon more snakes enter homes as floods drown their shelter, and a few simple precautions can keep them away.
Of about 3,500 snake species in the world only a handful are venomous; here are six of the deadliest, marked on Snake Day, 16 July.
Snakebites rise with the monsoon floods, and knowing what to do, and what not to do, on the way to hospital can save a life.
A 25-year-old trader in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, died after a cobra hiding under his shop's cash box bit him on the right leg.
A 19-year-old college student in Shailkupa, Jhenaidah, died after being bitten by a snake while asleep and first being taken to a snake charmer.
EnvironmentOn the afternoon of 11 July 2025, Rokeya Akter Rina, 48, died after a venomous snake bit her in her kitchen in Solia village, Parshuram, Feni, where she had gone to cook once the floodwater went down.
Volunteers in Kalapara had an injured kalnagini snake X-rayed on a vet's advice after rescuing it from villagers beating it with sticks.