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A wife suffocated to death after being buried in cow dung to treat a snake bite in India. Pictures show her covered in dung on the street in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh

A wife suffocated to death after being buried in cow dung to treat a snake bite in India. Pictures show her covered in dung on the street in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh.

The 35-year-old woman, named as Devendri [pictured), was out collecting wood for her fire when a snake bit her on the hand in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, northern India

The 35-year-old woman, named as Devendri (pictured), was out collecting wood for her fire when a snake bit her on the hand in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, northern India.

'The snake charmer was confident he could help. We left her in the cow dung for 75 minutes. I never thought she would die, I really thought she'd survive, and it'd work. I never thought this would happen.'

The snake charmer, Murarey, said: 'I'm known in this area to treat animal bites. I think the snake was a cobra. And yes, she died because she was buried.'

Mukesh is now left to raise five children alone.

Station house officer Anand Veer, at Kakod Police Station, said: 'We are not aware of this incident at the station. No one has reported anything or lodged a complaint.' 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...nake-bite-India.html

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The charmer should be jailed to set an example for stupidity. It is also amazing that with venomous snakes around that indian has not initiated a program in every locale to archive anti venom.

By the way, Guyana is in the same backward state. They archive the antivenom in the cities so an air ambulance has to come to collect the victim and take them to the city. Hours pass and necrosis takes in or worse and the patient loses a limb.

Labaria for example are prodigious producers of venom so you do not have much time before you begin to lose a limb if you are lucky to be bitten there.

FM

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