A 28-year-old man was killed by a snake bite while he was playing with it by wrapping the snake around his neck in Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Thursday.
The event occurred on Wednesday after Mohammad Shaikh caught the snake in Sanjay Nagar area of Mumbra locality, they said. He wrapped the snake around his neck and travelled in a market zone while playing with it even as the animal bit him thrice, a police official said. The man’s friends recorded his role on their mobile phones, but did not prevent him and posted the clip on social media.
Later, the man grieved of uneasiness and was hurried to a civic hospital where doctors announced him brought dead. The Mumbra police lodged a case of accidental death and sent the lash for postmortem to a government hospital in Thane, the official said.
