Gapam folk turn to faith healer to fend off snakes


PSST...This was the first time K.M. Thinageswar Sivaachaariyar received distress call from terrorised residents to find perpetual solution to slithery problem.

MALACCA: The fear of being confronted by snakes in and around their homes has led the people of Gapam in Air Keroh here to seek the help of a spiritual healer to get rid of the reptiles.

K.M. Thinageswar Sivaachaariyar (pic), 29, has been given a month to clear the area of venomous species sighted, including the king cobra (Ophiophagus Hannah) the spitting cobra or Sumatran cobra (Naja sumatrana).

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