Karnataka: Cobra bites stuntman making YouTube video | Hubballi News – Times of India

KARWAR: A man who tried to perform a stunt with three cobras was bitten by one of them and had to be hospitalised. In a video, Maaz Sayyad, a 21-year-old snake enthusiast in Kasturba Nagar in Sirsi, was seen juggling three cobras on March 13. The video was uploaded by an IFS officer, Susanta Nanda. This is just horrific way of handling cobras…The snake considers the movements as threats and follow the movement.… https://t.co/HEphzm2oxb— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) 1647440073000Maaz said he had caught three cobras separately in Sirsi town and intended to release them into the Targod forest on Monday. Before releasing the snakes, he decided to shoot a stunt with the cobras for his own YouTube channel. In the video, one of the cobras jumped and bit him in the knee while Maaz was focusing on another snake. Maaz tried to pull the cobra away from him but the reptile refused to let go for some time. Maaz, while speaking to the media from his hospital, said on Thursday that he was in the ICU and unconscious for two days. He said the flesh in the left leg where he was bitten was removed by doctors. He said he…
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