Youth Taken to Traditional Healer After Snakebite Dies Next Day
A 25-year-old man in Lohagara, Chattogram, died after relatives took him to a local ojha rather than a hospital following a snakebite.
A 25-year-old man in Lohagara, Chattogram, died after relatives took him to a local ojha rather than a hospital following a snakebite.
A 16-year-old boy has died of snakebite in Boalmari, Faridpur, after his family tried to cure him with a faith healer instead of taking him to hospital in time.
A venomous banded krait trapped for about a week in a house's boundary net was rescued in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, on 27 June.
A court in eastern China has jailed a man for keeping more than 300 pythons in a flat, which police found by investigating unusual electricity use.
A farmer in Pangsha, Rajbari, bitten by a venomous cobra while fetching fodder for his cattle, went to hospital carrying the live snake.
Two pythons were rescued from separate places in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, over two days and released into the forest.
EnvironmentOn 20 June 2026 a python about 12 feet long, caught in a net around farmland in Wahedpur union of Mirsharai, Chattogram, was rescued unharmed and released into the forest of Baraiyadhala National Park.
EnvironmentA seven-year-old girl died of a snakebite in Jhilim union of Chapainawabganj Sadar on the afternoon of 17 June 2026. Locals alleged she was first taken to a village healer; she was brought to hospital hours later and found dead.
A python caught in a fishing net in Hail Haor in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, has been rescued unharmed by the Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation.
A four-foot kalnagini snake was rescued from inside an air conditioner at a private clinic in Barishal and released by the forest department.
EnvironmentA 13-year-old schoolboy died after a venomous snake bit him on a pond bank by his home in Nayabil union of Nalitabari, Sherpur, on the evening of 12 June 2026. A doctor at the upazila health complex declared him dead.
A 10-month-old boy named Ariyan has died of a venomous snakebite in Dashmina upazila of Patuakhali.
EnvironmentShifa Akter, a 16-year-old madrasa student, died on 9 June 2026 after a cobra bit her beside the fridge at home in Phulbaria, Mymensingh. She first took little notice of the bite and was taken to hospital only when her condition worsened that afternoon.