Boy survives cobra bite in Maha Sarakham housing estate (video)
A highly venomous cobra entered a boy’s bedroom and bit him at a housing estate yesterday, September 30, in the northeastern province of Maha Sarakham province.
Rescuers were called to the house in Lao subdistrict, Kosum Phisai district, yesterday morning after a 13 year old boy named Tan was bitten by a snake.
Tan’s aunt, Mayura, explained she was 20 metres away from the house when she heard her mother shouting that her grandson had been bitten by a snake in his bedroom. A tearful Tan ran out of the room and shut the door, trapping the snake inside.
Tan had been bitten on the left foot and was rushed to Maha Sarakham Hospital by relatives. Rescuers found a metre-long cobra inside a mosquito netting tent where Tan slept. They quickly captured and bagged the snake.
Tan’s mother, Korakot, was not at home at the time but mentioned that she usually turned the air conditioner off at 7am and opened the bedroom door. She speculated that the snake might have slithered inside when she opened the back door, eventually finding its way into Tan’s room.
“It was totally unexpected because we live in a housing estate and there is no nearby forest the snake could have come from.”
Tan spent two days in hospital after receiving treatment for the bite and is gradually recovering, reported Bangkok Post.
In related news, a Thai man shared a TikTok video about his last trip where he was bitten by a snake at night on a mountain. He used survival skills passed down through generations to handle the situation, but netizens advised against his methods, calling them dangerous.
In other news, a Thai woman is demanding proper compensation from a cinema in the Rama II neighbourhood of Bangkok, claiming she was bitten by a snake while watching a film on July 31.
