New Delhi, July 28 -- Premshankar Chaurasia of Narsinghpur Pathra village under Chainpur block of Medininagar (Palamu) district in Jharkhand was sleeping with his family on the night of July 10-11. That is when a snake bit him and his two sons, 10-year-old Dev Kumar and six-year-old Arjun.

According to Chaurasia, Dev vomited at around 12.30 in the night. He showed his mother a wound on his neck and told her that a rat had bitten him. "After some time, the younger son's health deteriorated, and we too felt uneasy. We understood that he must have been bitten by a snake. Meanwhile, we saw a krait snake in a corner of the room." The family members admitted all three to Medinirai Medical College and Hospital. Then, both children were sent to ...