Nagpur, September 17: A cobra bit a seven-year-old girl after remaining wrapped around her neck for nearly two hours. The incident took place in Borkhedi village in Nagpur district of Maharashtra last week. The girl, Pari, had been lying still the entire time to get rid of the snake. However, when a snake rescuer tried to remove the cobra, she was bitten. Pari is currently being treated at a hospital and is out of danger. Cobra makes a U-turn! Huge snake strikes back when man grabs it with its tail and tries to pull it out of the room. Video goes viral.

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It was Paris’ mother Hemlata who first saw the cobra wrapped around her neck at around 11:45 p.m. on September 11, according to a report by Times of India. Though she was scared, she did not panic and asked her daughter to remain calm and not move. Meanwhile, the girl’s father, Padmakar Gadkari, called the neighbors for help. The snake remained wrapped around her neck until 1:45 am when a snake catcher finally arrived at the spot. Shock from Chhattisgarh: Drunk duo eats poisonous snake in Korba and is admitted to hospital.

Pari had been lying still the whole time. When the snake rescuer tried to remove the snake from her neck, it bit her near the elbow of her left hand and disappeared. She was taken to the hospital where doctors first checked whether she had been bitten by a venomous snake. After confirming that the snake was venomous, treatment for snake venom was started. The snake bite had left the girl’s left hand swollen.

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Thanks to immediate medical attention, Pari is out of danger. “Her condition is stable and she is recovering well,” Dr. Manish Jain, department head at MGIMS, was quoted as saying.