A Bihar man, who was bitten by a snake, bit it back, killing the reptile. Santosh Lohar, a resident of Navada, was sleeping at his base camp after a day's work on laying railway lines when the snake attacked him.
Driven by a superstition that biting the snake back would neutralise its venom, the 35-year-old took matters into his own hands and bit the snake twice. This unconventional response led to the snake's death, but it also landed Lohar in the hospital, reports NDTV.
His colleagues rushed him to the Rajauli subdivision hospital where he received treatment. Lohar recovered fast and was discharged the next day.
Earlier, a man in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur miraculously survived five snake bites in nearly two months, leaving the doctors astonished. The bites occurred on June 2, June 10, and June 17, and twice in July. His condition is now stable, and the case has been deemed "strange" by medical professionals.
