Authorities issue ‘snake alert' in flood-hit Keral in India

One of the resident who found a cobra in his kitchen after the floods. [Courtesy]

Hospitals are readying anti-venom and flood victims returning home in the Indian state of Kerala have been told to stay alert as receding waters leave behind a glut of snakes.

Local media reports warned that snakes may be “hiding in cupboards” or under carpets, among clothes or inside washing machines in homes previously submerged by floods that have devastated parts of the southern state.