A 20-year-old Telangana youth met with a sad end while trying to swallow the head of a live snake for a social media video, reports said. The youngster, identified as Mochi Sivaraj was bitten by a cobra when he tried to put the serpent's head inside his mouth "to go viral on the internet."
The unfortunate yet shocking development took place in Deshaipet village of Telangana's Warangal district. Sivaraj was the son of Ganga Ram a snake rescuer. The father-son duo were summoned by residents of Deshaipet after the snake menace became intolerable. Having received basic training from his father, Sivaraj also arrived in the village.
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According to media reports, Mochi Sivaraj got hold of a two-metre long cobra. He first took photographs and selfies with the poisonous snake before proceeding to shoot videos -- suspectably to post as reels and shorts.
The man put the cobra's head in his mouth to shoot the video. During the stunt, the cobra bit him and ejaculated more poison inside his mouth, Manorama News said in a report.
The youngster didn't survive.
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Flood-hit Telangana to get Central aid
Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday visited flood-hit areas in Telangana and assured that the Centre would extend necessary help to the state so that the farmers can come out of the crop loss.
In a veiled attack on the previous BRS regime, he alleged that the non-utilisation and diversion of Central funds and also non-implementation of schemes like the PM crop insurance scheme, the state was not able to benefit in the present crisis.
Interacting with the flood-hit farmers in Khammam district, the union minister said while the present disaster in the state is big, the previous government was also not short of a "disaster" as it created such a situation that finding a solution is also turning out to be difficult, he said.
