A farmer was shocked after finding a 16ft long king cobra his his kitchen.<br /><br />Suwit Sriyotha noticed the huge reptile coiled under a sink before it fled into his back garden in Trang, southern Thailand, on March 23.<br /><br />The frightened resident immediately ran out of his house and yelled to his mother-in-law Sangiam Lommueng for help.<br /><br />Sangiam kept the creature at bay while Suwit phoned the emergency services. Reptile handlers rushed to the scene and grabbed the cobra while the neighours watched.<br /><br />Head of the rescue team Wutthichai Pornpermsook said they took more than twenty minutes to capture the snake.<br /><br />He said: ''This is the longest snake we have caught this year. The cobra weighed 11kg.''<br /><br />Suwit said: "I turned pale when I first found the snake in the kitchen. It was the biggest one I have ever seen."<br /><br />The serpent was later put it into a bag before being released into the thick woods far from houses.
