"Our neighbors have told me that the snake was in the hand of my child, she was playing with it and then it bit her," her dad, Mehmet Ercan said.
A toddler from the village of Kantar, in Bingol, Turkey, killed a snake that had bitten her. Identified only as SE and aged two, she was playing in her family home's back garden when the incident took place on August 10th.
Her neighbors heard her screams and immediately rushed to the young girl's rescue. When they arrived at the garden, they found the little one with a snake measuring about 20 inches clamped in her mouth. They also saw that she had a bite mark from the snake on her lower lip, The Sun reports.
Toddler, two, sinks her teeth into 20-inch snake that had bitten her lip, killing the reptile in revenge https://t.co/csKmVOVVac
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) August 13, 2022
At first, the neighbors proceeded to ensure that the snake was dead. Thereafter, they performed first aid on the two-year-old and called the paramedics, according to local sources. She was swiftly rushed to Bingol Maternity and Children's Hospital where she was put under observation for a total of 24 hours. At present, she is doing well, recovering quickly, and resting up. Her father Mehmet Ercan was at work when the incident occurred. He expressed great relief. "Allah has protected her, really," he said in an interview. "Our neighbors have told me that the snake was in the hand of my child, she was playing with it and then it bit her. Then she has bitten the snake back as a reaction."
Social media users weighed in on the situation, praising the young girl for her courage. One individual posted on Twitter, "What a little trooper! Blimey! Bless her little cotton socks." Another added, "Go girl! Every dad wants his daughter this tough." Others were impressed by the simple ways in which toddlers look at life. "Two year old gonna two year old," one user wrote. "They are very fond of using their teeth as a weapon at that age." Another stated, "You bite me? I bite you back. Ah, the simplicity of being a two-year-old."
This is not the first time a toddler has made the news for an interaction gone wrong with a reptile. Recently, an eight-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after an adder bite caused his hand to swell up to five times its normal size, reports Daily Mail. The incident took place when Jake Closier was on a day trip to Hemsby beach in Norfolk, United Kingdom. The snake launched at him while he played in the sand dunes. Thankfully, his father Kenny, 33, and mother Sophie, 32, were around to take care of him. They initially thought the bite was from a harmless grass snake but soon realized something was wrong when the child's hand went "completely hard."
References:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5992422/toddlerteeth-snake-kills-revenge-attack/
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