Creeping cobra forces residents out of flats

Caught: A resident holding the captured snake.Escape artist: The two-metre cobra snaking down from a flat.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: A snake charmer had to be called in when freaked out residents of a four-storey flat saw a cobra slithering out of a window on the third floor.

“We could see the two-metre snake looking for a way back into a unit on the third floor. We contacted a snake charmer. He caught the snake and took it away in a gunny sack,” said businessman Shaharudin Ahmad, 46, who lives at the Taman Pauh Jaya flats.