Youth dies of snakebite in Pilibhit

  • | Thursday | 20th September, 2018

After confirmation, a compensation of Rs 4 lakh will be given to the deceased’s kin under the state disaster relief plan,” Devrar said. Pilibhit: An 18-year-old youth of Jamunia village under Madhotanda police station died of snakebite on Wednesday night.According to victim’s brother Dharmendra Verma, Ravindra (18) had gone to their paddy field where he was bitten by a venomous snake. He was unmarried and youngest among four brothers,” said Dharmendra.As the UP government recently declared snakebite deaths as “state disaster”, Kalinagar circle sub divisional magistrate Pushpa Devrar sent a two-member team of revenue officials to probe the matter and send the body for autopsy.“We have been waiting for the autopsy report to confirm that the snakebite was the reason of his death. A local who was working in an adjacent field dropped my brother at home on his bicycle.”“We first took him to a tantric, but when his condition did not improve, we took him to a private hospital in Bareilly’s Bhojipura, where doctors declared him brought dead.

Pilibhit: An 18-year-old youth of Jamunia village under Madhotanda police station died of snakebite on Wednesday night.According to victim’s brother Dharmendra Verma, Ravindra (18) had gone to their paddy field where he was bitten by a venomous snake. A local who was working in an adjacent field dropped my brother at home on his bicycle.”“We first took him to a tantric, but when his condition did not improve, we took him to a private hospital in Bareilly’s Bhojipura, where doctors declared him brought dead. He was unmarried and youngest among four brothers,” said Dharmendra.As the UP government recently declared snakebite deaths as “state disaster”, Kalinagar circle sub divisional magistrate Pushpa Devrar sent a two-member team of revenue officials to probe the matter and send the body for autopsy.“We have been waiting for the autopsy report to confirm that the snakebite was the reason of his death. After confirmation, a compensation of Rs 4 lakh will be given to the deceased’s kin under the state disaster relief plan,” Devrar said.

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