Aged woman catches cobra with bare hands in Tumakuru village, leaves onlookers shocked

TUMAKURU: An aged woman stunned onlookers when she caught a huge cobra, which had lodged itself in a house, with her bare hands, carried it for some distance and killed it by smashing its head against a coconut tree. She even posed for cameras with the snake wrapped around her shoulders.

A snake had entered a house near the Belaguli Betta in Chikkanayakanahalli taluk. Even as some locals were looking for wooden sticks to thrash the snake, the aged woman coolly walked up to the snake, picked it up and took it away from the house.

After smashing its hood against a coconut tree, the woman then checked the fangs of the cobra, inserted a coin in its mouth before discarding the carcass a little distance away. The actions of the woman left the locals in shock and awe.