BAREILLY: In a bizarre and horrifying incident, more than 150 snakes were found in a house in Oel town area under Lakhimpur Kheri district. However, after the resident of the house saw a large number of snakes in the house, the scared family was forced to spend the night at a neighbour’s house. The family took help of a serpent charmer to dispose the snakes in the forest area.

As per the reports, Jitendra Mishra, a retired forest sub-inspector in Oel, heard some kind of a noise and found a pair of snakes in his house on Sunday night. “The family of Mishra along with the help of neighbours caught two snakes from the house and disposed them. However, after an hour, they again heard the similar noise but to their surprise, they spotted numerous snakes at their house,” said Arvind Kumar Rai, incharge of police outpost at Oel. He added that the terrified family of four ran away from their home and spent the night at neighbour’s house.

After the news spread in the area about large number of snakes present in house, numerous people gathered around the house. The restless family called a local serpent charmer, Ram Chander, on Monday for help. “The serpent charmer inspected the house and told them that snakes are coming from an old wall present in the house. Though house was not very old, this wall was many decades old. Chander broke this wall and shockingly found hundreds of snakes hidden under the wall,” said Rai who was present at the scene.

The serpent charmer caught the snakes in a box and later released them in to forest area. “Though the exact number of snakes are not known, there were more than 150 snakes which were later released in forest areas,” said Rai. He added, “It is not yet known on how snakes entered the house but it seems that any snake may had laid eggs under the wall few years back.”

Station officer, Kheri police station, Brijendra Singh said, “The situation is under control and snakes were released into forest cover.”



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