Teen saves sister by sucking poison out of snake bite

MANGALURU

: A teenager's presence of mind saved his sister from death after a venomous snake sank its fangs into her leg near their house in

Belthangady

taluk.

Raju, a dairy farmer, said his daughter Sharanya K R, 11, had gone to their neighbour's house to deliver milk at 4.30pm Sunday . When she reached a drain 200m from their house, she felt a reptile bite on her leg.

On reaching home, she told her mother and brother about it. Sharanya's 16-year old brother Nithin K R, with the help of his mother, first made a tourniquet using paddy straws just above the bite marks on the leg and then sucked the blood out with his mouth.

Later, she was brought to a private hospital in Mangaluru where she was kept in the ICU for 24 hours. She has since recovered and has gone back to school.