Luck runs out for Bangladesh`s `snake king`

Dhaka (ANTARA News) - Bangladeshi "snake king" Tota Miah, who became a
national celebrity after starting the country's first commercial snake
farm, has died after failing to charm two cobras, police said Monday.



"He was bitten on his hands by two cobras on Saturday as he was playing
with them and went into coma. He died late Sunday," police
sub-inspector Abdul Wahab told AFP.



He said at least 8,000 people attended his funeral.



Miah, 38, was a household name in Bangladesh. He established a cobra
farm in 1998 after training in India, and would catch snakes, hatch
their eggs in an incubator and sell snakes to professional charmers.



He leaves behind a wife, two children -- and some 600 cobras. (*)Dhaka (ANTARA News) - Bangladeshi "snake king" Tota Miah, who became a national celebrity after starting the country's first commercial snake farm, has died after failing to charm two cobras, police said Monday.
"He was bitten on his hands by two cobras on Saturday as he was playing with them and went into coma. He died late Sunday," police sub-inspector Abdul Wahab told AFP.
He said at least 8,000 people attended his funeral.
Miah, 38, was a household name in Bangladesh. He established a cobra farm in 1998 after training in India, and would catch snakes, hatch their eggs in an incubator and sell snakes to professional charmers.

He leaves behind a wife, two children -- and some 600 cobras. (*) END