Ritu Raj/ Muzaffarpur:- A snake that scares even the bravest of people. One snake is enough to scare people. But just imagine, if 30 snakes appear in a house at the same time, what will be the condition of the people living in that house and that too if they are not ordinary snakes but extremely poisonous snakes of the Indian Cobra species, then people will get goosebumps.
Such a scene has come to light from Khaira village of Saraiya block of Muzaffarpur district of Bihar, where 16 baby Indian cobras and 32 snake eggs were found in a house. Seeing this, the rescue team of the forest department was also surprised. Sanjit Mahato, a resident of Khaira village of Saraiya block, was seeing snakes in his house for the last two days. Sanjit felt that the baby snakes were coming into the house due to rain water entering the burrow. He caught about a dozen baby snakes and left them in the fields, even then he did not know that snakes had made their home and dozens of snakes were living in his house.
16 snakes, 32 eggs rescued
After the snakes kept coming out, he informed the local people about it. When the local villagers reached his house, they were surprised to see that not one or two but a dozen snakes were roaming in the house. After this, the information of this matter was given to the Disaster Management Department and the Forest Department. The rescue team of the Forest Department, led by officer Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, rescued 16 snakes from three rooms after more than 3 hours of hard work. During this time, 32 snake eggs were also found in the house, which were about to come out soon. After the rescue, the family members breathed a sigh of relief.
Indian cobra species of snakes found
Forest department official Dr. Rajiv Ranjan told Local18 that information was received that snakes had made a villager’s house in Khaira village their hideout, after which the rescue team reached the spot and investigated the house, and saw that there were many rat burrows. Indian cobra never makes burrows, it lays eggs in rat burrows. When these burrows were dug, 16 snake babies were found in them and during this time 32 eggs were also found, which have been recovered. All the snakes are of the Indian cobra species and were making their hideout in the house. All will be rescued and released in the forest by the forest department. The cobra and the female cobra whose eggs and babies these are, could not be caught.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : July 19, 2024, 11:10 IST