This the remarkable moment a man used a plastic bottle to rescue an injured cobra from a road in southern India.<br /><br />The reptile lay injured in the middle of the road in Karnakata state after it was run over by a bike. <br /><br />The incident disrupted traffic as vehicles tried to move aside to avoid the creature.<br /><br />A passer-by stepped in to rescue it. <br /><br />He lifted the cobra and gently pushed it inside a plastic bottle and took it away to release it in a forest.<br /><br />Eyewitnesses Shekar Kumar said: “The man knew to how to handle the cobra. It was fortunate that he was passing by.” <br /><br />The incident occurred on the Koodligi-Hospet road on October 2.
