This is the moment an Indian farmer walks into a town seeking help with a snake coiled around his leg. <br /><br />The reptile had sunk its fangs into Satyanarayan Mandal’s right leg, just above the ankle, when he was working in his farm near Madhepur in eastern Bihar state. <br /><br />The snake’s curved teeth got stuck in his flesh and unable to free itself, it had coiled itself around his leg.<br /><br />Terrified and unable to remove the stubbornly attached snake, Mandal walked for three kilometres to the Madhepura town, where people saw his plight and rushed to help.<br /><br />Eyewitness Mohammed Asharf said: “It was scary as we were not sure if the snake was poisonous or not.” <br /><br />“Many in the crowd wanted to kill the snake and free him. But two men offered to help saying they would try to save both the man and the snake.”<br /><br />The two men tightly wrapped a piece of cloth around the slippery snake and managed to uncoil it. They then held its head and gently removed the teeth from Mandal’s leg. <br /><br />They wrapped the snake in a bag and released it later in a nearby forest. <br /><br />Mandal was taken to a hospital, where doctors examined him and said he didn’t have any symptoms of poisoning.<br /><br />Snake expert Subhendu Mallik reviewed the videos and said the snake was a non-venomous checkered keelback. <br /><br />“Rescue workers should insert a hard substance such as a wooden stick or a screwdriver into the snake’s mouth or nostril to make it loosen its grip. It becomes easier to remove it after that,” he added.
