A group of firefighters rescued a snake after it strayed inside the toilet of a residential building in southern India's Tamil Nadu.<br /><br />The incident took place in Dharapuram of Tirupur district on June 27.<br /><br />The video shows, the firefighters rescuing the reptile from the toilet using a snake-catcher and putting it in a bag.<br /><br />According to the reports, the owner of the house immediately called the fire department to inform about the snake that was spotted in the washroom.<br /><br />The firefighters rushed to spot and rescued the snake successfully after an hour-long operation.<br /><br />As the news spread it created a panicked situation among the people of the locality.<br /><br />The reptile has been identified as an oriental rat snake, a nonvenomous species of colubrid snake.<br /><br />The snake was later released into a nearby forest range.
