Venomous Snake Bites Sleeping 11-Year-Old After Entering Home, Listed Stable After Treatment

A venomous snake bit an 11-year-old boy sleeping in his house late Sunday in Chandigarh, India.

The victim’s mother, Sahana Khan, said, “The family was in deep sleep when his shriek woke us up with an alarm. He was complaining of acute pain in the abdomen. Before we could say anything, he started vomiting and we moved him to the nearest civil hospital in Manimajra. On the way, he fell unconscious and doctors detected poison in his body, suspecting it to have come from the bite of a venomous creature such as a snake. Later, I found marks of snakebite on one of his arms.”

The doctors asked the parents of the victim to shift the boy to a government hospital nearby where he was admitted to the intensive care unit. His condition is stable now.

The victim’s mother said that, in this year alone, four people were already killed due to snake infestation in surrounding areas. She added, “Snakes from the surrounding forest area sneak into houses and bite people. The administration should clear these shrubs and wild grasses from residential areas at least so that such incidents do not reoccur.”

In a similar incident in September, a 14-year-old girl was bitten by a snake inside the school hostel while she was asleep. The grade nine student alerted her friends after falling ill. The girl was subsequently taken to the hospital after the warden was informed where she was pronounced dead. The autopsy report revealed that the girl had died from a snakebite.