Venomous Monocled Cobra Found Inside Boalkhali Home, Family Escapes Unharmed
A Wildlife and Snake Rescue Team pulled a 2.5-foot monocled cobra from a house in Boalkhali, Chattogram, sparing the family from the venomous snake.
A Wildlife and Snake Rescue Team pulled a 2.5-foot monocled cobra from a house in Boalkhali, Chattogram, sparing the family from the venomous snake.
First described in India in 1936, the coral red kukri was recorded in Bangladesh only in February 2021, and one rescuer has since found 66 of them.
CropsOn 9 July 2026 the Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation rescued an unharmed python about 10 feet long and weighing around 14 kg from the Bhurbhuria tea garden in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar.
About 900 snakes, including venomous cobras, escaped into villages when floods from Typhoon Mesak swamped a commercial farm in China's Guangxi region.
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EnvironmentA Chittagong University law student was bitten by a venomous snake on the night of 8 July 2026 beside Khaleda Zia Hall. He was given a dose of antivenom at Hathazari Upazila Health Complex and admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital under close observation.
A cobra sitting with its hood raised in the middle of a busy Bengaluru road stopped traffic for about 30 minutes until police moved it to safety.
EnvironmentA woman bitten by a snake died after being taken to the Madarganj Upazila Health Complex in Jamalpur on the night of 6 July 2026; the next day a staff doctor was allegedly assaulted, and a three-member committee was formed to investigate.
A 24-year-old housewife died in Madaripur after a venomous snake hidden in a pile of firewood bit her as she collected fuel for cooking.
EnvironmentA woman in Yuanyang county, Yunnan, was poisoned after copying a television method and sucking cobra venom from her farmer husband's bitten finger; reports in early July 2026 said both were treated with antivenom and discharged.
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A python has been rescued from a hardware shop at Nildumur Bazar next to the Sundarbans in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira.
A python about eight feet long got caught in a farmer's net at Hutchinsonpur in Khagrachhari and was later rescued by a Forest Department team.