BENGALURU: A Class 9 boy from a government school in Kamarajnagar, 90km south from here, received a severe jolt when he reached the school and opened his bag to get down to the day’s task — what he found was a cobra nestling between his books.

Kamarajanagar town is in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu and borders Karnataka. “It would have been tragic if the boy had put his hand in the bag instead of looking into it,” a school official was quoted as saying by TV channels. The boy immediately ran out and threw the bag away. A video grab of the cobra slithering out of the bag has gone viral.

After returning home from school on Friday evening, the boy is said to have dumped the bag in a corner of his room. He told his teachers he didn’t open the book till he went to school on Monday morning.

School officials said the snake may have sneaked into the boy’s house and entered the bag. “What is shocking is the fact that he walked for nearly 1km with the snake inside,” they said.



In Video: Shocking: Boy walks to school with cobra in his bag