A breathtaking video of a snake handler rescuing a deadly cobra from an abandoned well in the Nashik district of Maharashtra has gone viral on social media.
#WATCH | The volunteers of a non-government wildlife research organization rescued a highly venomous snake, an Indian spectacled cobra (Naag) from an abandoned well in the Nashik area of Maharashtra yesterday. pic.twitter.com/sgCm7ZeQ2V
— ANI (@ANI) March 26, 2022
The man lowers a hook tied with a rope into the well and then gradually lifts the snake out and places it on the ground near a bag.
He then deftly pushes the reluctant snake into the bag for releasing it into a wild forest later.
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