A man was filmed catching and eating a live snake in Uttar Pradesh. (Image for representation only)
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In a bizarre incident reported in Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, a man was seen catching a snake and eating it live.
As per a report with Free Press Journal, the man known as Ganga Prasad, a man convicted of dacoity, recently got out of prison after serving a jail sentence. In the now widely circulated video, the man can be seen sitting by the river catching the snake. He then tightly holds the snake attempting to strangle it and and bites off a portion of it after it stops moving.
The video quickly went viral with netizens expressing shock and some even calling him 'Bear Grylls Ka Phupaa'.
In the recent past few similar incidents have been reported. In one such incident a 45-year-old tribal man reportedly bit a snake to death after the latter bit him in Odisha's Jajpur district. Kishore Badra of Gambharipatia village was returning home after working in his paddy field, when a snake bit him on his leg. Badra managed to capture the viper and bit it to death in a bid to take revenge and what was surprising was that the snake's bite and his action had seemingly no impact on him.
In another such incident, a man in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district was bitten by snakes six times within one and a half months. He was taken to the hospital and recovered each time. The man named Vikas Dubey claimed that he was bit each time either on Saturday or Sunday and that he had a premonition that he would be bit, reported India Today.
The man reportedly changed his house in a bid to avoid the snake bites but was attacked even at his relatives' house.
Studies estimate that each year, about five million snake bites occur around the world, while 81,000 to 138,000 people die and about 400,000 people are left with permanent disabilities and amputations. India has the highest burden of such deaths.
(with inputs from PTI)