Snake sparks panic in Mohali

Mohali, May 10

Panic gripped locality when a 6-feet-long common krait was spotted in a balcony of a house at Phase 11, Mohali, in the late evening on Sunday. On spotting venomous snake coiled in flowerpots, a woman sitting in the balcony and enjoying weather, screamed and rushed inside the house.

The house owner, Col Raghubir Singh Shah (retd), said on hearing screams of the women his wife, who was offering prayers, rushed out, and discovered snake in the balcony. They called a snake catcher from Sector 38, Chandigarh, who caught the common krait, Col Shah added. The snake catcher told them it was a common krait, one of the venomous snake found in and around Chandigarh, Col Shah said.