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Two-year-old bites cobra to death after attack

A cobra. [Courtesy]

In a tale that seems to leap straight from mythology into reality, a fearless two-year-old boy from Bihar's West Champaran district left an entire village in awe after biting a cobra to death.

In the incident, as reported by The Times of India, little Govinda, son of Sunil Sah, was playing innocently outside his home in Bankatwa village near Bettiah on a quiet Friday afternoon when the unthinkable happened.

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