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Toddler bites and kills snake at village in Turkey

PM:07:19:16/08/2022

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SULAIMANI — A two-year-old girl in Bingol, Turkey killed a snake by biting it to death after the animal attacked her, Newsweek magazine said on Monday (August 15).

On August 10, neighbors responded to the sound of the child screaming from her backyard in the village of Kantar in Bingol.

She was discovered with a 20-inch snake that she had bitten to death, and neighbors observed a bite-mark from the snake on her lip.

Mehmet Ercan, the girl’s father, said his neighbors informed him she had been playing with the snake in her hand when it bit her.

The child was taken to a hospital in Bingol where she was recovering from her injuries, and it is considered unlikely the snake that bit her was one of the 12 venomous species present in Turkey.

(NRT Digital Media)