Nearly 900 snakes escape flooded China breeding farm
Digest more
Hundreds of snakes are plaguing villagers in China after heavy rain flooded a breeding farm and released the reptiles into the water.
It sounds like the script of a low-budget horror movie – a community besieged by hundreds of snakes. But in Hengzhou, a southern Chinese city of some one million residents, floodwaters have brought that terrifying reality to their doorsteps.
A woman has reportedly died after being bitten by a snake and reaching the hospital late due to roadblocks and flood in Hengzhou, a city in Guangxi.
