A baby snake was killed bit by a 16-month old child at Ujalpur village in Begampur union of Chuadanga on Tuesday.
The incident occurred in the morning when the child named Jannatul Ferdous bit the snake as she was playing at her house.
Parents of Jannatul immediately took her to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital with the bitten snake where the doctors kept her for observation for three hours after giving primary treatment.
Duty doctor Afrina Islam said the species of the snake has not been identified yet.
“If the snake had bitten the child she would have shown some symptoms during the three hour of observations. As she didn’t we sent her back home,” said Dr Mahbubur Rahman Milon, Junior Consultant Child Specialist of the hospital.
“As Jannatul bit the snake’s trachea it died immediately. The snakes’s species was not identified but it was poisonous,”he added.
Jannatul’s mother said, ”Jannatul was playing with her cousin when suddenly she went under the bed and after a few moments we found the severed body of the snake in her hand. Fortunately it did not bite her and she was unharmed.”
Source: United News of Bangladesh