Snakebite victim’s brother visits village for funeral, gets killed by another snake in UP

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

Balrampur
(UP),
Aug
4:
A
man
who
had
come
to
attend
the
last
rites
of
his
brother
who
died
of
snakebite
was
killed
after
being
bitten
by
a
snake
in
his
sleep,
police
said
on
Thursday.

Govind
Mishara
(22)
attended
the
last
rites
of
his
brother
Arvind
Mishra
(38)
held
in
Bhawanipur
village
on
Wednesday,
Circle
Officer
Radha
Raman
Singh
told
PTI.
The
brother
died
of
snakebite
on
Tuesday.

“Govind
Mishara
was
killed
after
being
bitten
by
a
snake
in
his
sleep.
One
of
the
relatives
of
the
family,
Chandrashekar
Pandey
(22),
who
was
in
the
same
house,
was
also
bitten
by
a
snake,”
Singh
said.

“Pandey
was
rushed
to
a
hospital,
where
his
condition
remains
critical,”
the
official
added.

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Both
Govind
Mishara
and
Pandey
had
come
to
the
village
from
Ludhiana
to
attend
the
last
rites
of
Arvind
Mishra,
the
police
said.

Senior
medical
and
administrative
officials
visited
the
village
on
Thursday.
Local
MLA
Kailash
Nath
Shukla
met
with
the
grieving
family
and
assured
them
of
help.

Shukla
asked
local
officials
to
take
measures
to
prevent
such
incidents
in
the
future.