Our Special CorrespondentHasnabad: A jatra actress performing with a spectacled cobra was stung on stage and died a few hours later in a North 24-Parganas village after attempts by a quack to revive her failed on Tuesday night. The woman in her early 50s turned up at Das's house with her team and two snakes, a spectacled cobra and a monocled cobra. An official in the state forest department said the spectacled cobra and the monocled cobra both are protected under the Wildlife Protection Act. Kalidasi was foaming at her mouth but Biswas kept saying that he would cure her of the effects of snake venom. "An adult spectacled cobra releases 170-250mg venom in each bite," she said.

Source: The Telegraph May 09, 2018 21:33 UTC