Govinda Kumar was playing at home in Bankatwa village when he spotted the nearly metre-long snake, tried to grab it, only to have the reptile coil around his hands and attack him, according to local media.
The boy’s grandmother was quoted as saying that Govinda’s reaction was to bite the snake’s head, killing it on the spot. The child then passed out and was rushed to hospital.
Grandmother Mateshwari Devi told local media: “I was moving firewood near the house and the cobra came out … We rushed towards the boy and saw he had taken the cobra’s head into his mouth. We then separated the cobra from his mouth and hands.
“The cobra died on the spot, while the child fell unconscious.”
The Hindustan Times reported that the child had bitten so hard into the snake that it was ripped in two.
According to India Today, village locals had said the boy was possibly agitated by the snake coming too close to him.
