A snake wrangler struggled to catch a king cobra after it wrapped itself around his body.<br /><br />The rescue team were called by pensioner Suhapp Paiboonsawat, 66, who was woken up by the deadly reptile which had slithered under his bed in Songkhla, southern Thailand.<br /><br />He looked under the mattress and saw the glistening eyes of the serpent, which darted out across the tiles and tried to slither up the wall on Sunday (March 8) morning.<br /><br />Suphap rushed out of the room and slammed the door before calling the emergency services once he had recovered his composure.<br /><br />Two rescuers arrived at the bedroom and found the 10ft long ferocious king cobra stretching its body out along the ground. It began hissing when they walked into the room.<br /><br />The volunteers used snake catching rods to hook the serpent's head but it kept resisting even after it was hooked.<br /><br />They pinned down the king cobra's head but it used its long body to coil around the rescuer's waist.<br /><br />The team took 30 minutes before they were eventually able to catch the snake and shove it into a sack to be released back into the wild.<br /><br />The shaken pensioner said he thought that the snake was going to kill him.<br /><br />Suhapp said: "The snake's movement beside my mattress woke me up. If I hadn't woken up it would have bitten me and killed me.<br /><br />''The size of the snake terrified me. I feel very lucky that I was able to get out of the room before it attacked.''
