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Vadodara: In a bizarre incident, a 70-year-old man from Mahisagar district’s Ajanwa village in Gujarat died after biting a venomous snake that bit him first. The man tried to eat the reptile after it bit him on Saturday evening.

Following the incident, he collapsed to the ground and was taken to a government hospital at Lunawada for treatment. Baria was shifted to a private hospital and later to Godhra civil hospital, where he died fours hours after the snakebite.

Parvat Gala Baria was working on his farm when a snake bit him. In a fit of rage, Baria picked up the snake from the ground with his hands and took a chunk off the reptile, reported The Times of India.

Baria’s daughter-in-law Leela Baria told reporters that a relative had witnessed the ‘act of revenge’.

"The relative took the snake and burnt it, but brought the remains along with my father-in-law to the hospital," Leela Baria told TOI.

However, this is not the only reported incident where a man died after eating a live snake.

In September last year, a heavily inebriated man in UP’s Amroha district died after eating a live snake he found on a road. He was allegedly provoked by villagers to eat the poisonous snake.

According to local residents, he was requested by some villagers to play with the snake as they recorded the entire incident on their mobile phones. The victim even managed to put the snake on his head for a bit. After much provocation from locals, he placed the snake in his mouth.

Before he could realise what was happening, the snake slipped from his hands and made its way down his trachea.