Villagers beat 14 cobras to death after finding them in a haystack in Kushtia
Villagers in Kalidaspur in Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila beat to death a large cobra and 13 young cobras found in a haystack.
Villagers in Kalidaspur in Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila beat to death a large cobra and 13 young cobras found in a haystack.
Dinajpur's health department says three recent snakebite deaths were not caused by Russell's viper and that the district has enough antivenom.
Gumboots were distributed among 100 farmers in Goalanda, Rajbari, after a rise in the number of Russell's vipers and other snakes in the area.
The coordinator of Bangladesh's Venom Research Centre says antivenom now imported from India could be produced at home once a modern venom laboratory is built.
Snakes come closer to people in the monsoon, and the Health Education Bureau lists nine rules for what to do, and avoid, after a bite.
With snakebites and deaths rising in June and July, the Health Education Bureau offers six simple steps to avoid being bitten.
Experts say the decline of snake-eating animals has let Russell's vipers spread to 32 districts, while panic has led people to kill mostly harmless snakes.
A snake killed inside a house in Mirsarai, Chattogram, in the belief that it was a Russell's viper appears to have been a different snake.
A tourist visiting Jaflong in Sylhet was bitten on the leg by a snake at Mayabi waterfall; the snake was not venomous and he is out of danger.
Russell's vipers have killed at least six people in six months in Faridpur, and fear of the snakes has left char farmers unable to find labourers for the groundnut harvest.
A venomous Russell's viper was caught in a fisherman's China duari net on a newly formed Padma char in Harirampur, Manikganj.
A two-year-old girl died of a suspected snakebite in Ramnagar village of Magura Sadar upazila after falling ill while going to sleep.
A snake said to be a Russell's viper was found and killed in a field in Jibannagar, Chuadanga, leaving farmers afraid to go to their fields.