Two-year-old boy in India bites cobra to death in bizarre encounter


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NEW DELHI: A two-year-old boy in India’s eastern state of Bihar killed a cobra by biting it after the venomous snake had slithered too close to him.

Govinda Kumar was playing at home in Bankatwa village when he spotted the nearly metre-long snake, tried to grab it, only to have the reptile coil around his hands and attack him, according to local media.

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