Srinagar, Uttarakhand: In a rather strange incident reported from Uttarakhand, vehicular traffic was halted along the Srinagar-Dang road due to a fight between two snakes in the district on Sunday. The video of the incident is being widely shared on the Internet.
Sources said that late on Sunday night, two snakes started fighting with each other on the road going to Dang as a result of which traffic on the road came to a grinding halt. Commuters traveling along the road stopped their vehicles to watch the strange fight. While some people started calling them ‘Naag Naagin’, others said these were ‘Ichchhadhari Naag, Manidhari Naag’ fighting with each other for territory.
One of the spectators passing by made a video of the fight of snakes with the video going viral on social media. In the viral video are seen entangled in each other fighting with each other while the people are seen watching the fight under the light of mobile phones and headlights of their vehicles.
It is believed that the two snakes might have been driven to the middle of the road from the nearby forest area where a raging forest fire has started which has destroyed trees besides harming the wild animals. Probably these snakes might have also come out of the forest to escape from the fire.
Pertinently, snakes are also a threat to human life in Uttarakhand. In the last three years in Uttarakhand, 85 people have died due to snake bites even as 369 others have been injured in the snake bite incidents. In the year 2021, 30 people died due to snake bites, while 119 people were admitted to the hospital due to snake bites. Likewise, in the year 2022, 30 people lost their lives and 113 people were injured due to snake bites.
Last year, a total of 25 people died due to snake venom and 137 were injured. The highest number of 90 cases of snake bites were reported in Pithoragarh district. The highest number of 24 deaths due to snake bites have occurred in the Terai East region of Uttarakhand.
