6 die from snake bites – Gogrial

Six people are reported dead and seven others injured after snake bites in Gogrial West County in Warrap State.

The commissioner of Gogrial West, Wol Anei, says the cases were recorded in the last two months.

He told Eye Radio that snake bites increased at the onset of the rainy season.

“People are worried indeed because you cannot walk at night unless you use touch, and you know our people are backward,” he said.

“They don’t have these materials like touches and they walk in darkness where they collide with the snakes in the grass and in the water.”

He said most of the bites were of non-poisonous snakes.

It is said that only 15% of the roughly 3,000 known species of snake found worldwide are considered dangerous to humans.