Alekha Pradhan and Sarat Nayak work as construction workers for a company at Bhubaneswar in eastern India.<br /><br />On July 13, they went to sleep on a makeshift bed at the construction site itself after finishing the day’s work. <br /><br />At 2:30 a.m. Sarat Nayak felt something crawling on his body. He pushed it with a hand and the cold object reacted with a sharp hiss. He sprung up from his bed and woke up his colleague Alekha. <br /><br />Both the men flashed their mobile phones and saw a four-feet-long spectacled cobra staring at them. <br /><br />Then hurried out and put bricks all around the mosquito net to prevent the cobra from coming out. <br /><br />After they called Snake Helpline for help, a volunteer Arun Baral went and rescued the cobra, which was later released in the wild.<br /><br />Subhendu Mallik, founder of Snake Helpline said: “In the rainy season, snakes come out as their burrows are filled with water. We have advised them to sleep on a cot.” <br /><br />“The two men were lucky to escape without a bite,” he added.
