In a bizarre claim made by a teenager has left everyone shocked in Rampur village in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district. The 17-year-old boy named Yashraj Mishra has claimed that he has been bit by a snake eight times in a month. The most surprising part of the incident is that the boy has survived after being attacked by the snake several times.
Mishra has been hospitalised many times and last he was attacked by the reptile a week back. The boy's family has reached out to snake charmers for help in the village.
"After my son was bitten for the third time by the snake, I sent him to my relative Ramji Shukla's place in Bahadurpur village. A few days later, my son saw the same snake near the house and he was bitten again. Yashraj was hospitalised and treated," Yashraj's father Chandramauli Mishra said.
"We cannot understand why this snake is targeting Yashraj. The boy is now mentally disturbed and lives in the constant fear of the snake. We have performed 'puja' several times and have even called snake charmers to catch the snake, but all have proved futile," the father said.