BARDIBAS: At least three persons have died within a week from snakebites in Bardibas Municipality-1 of Mahottari district.

The deceased have been identified as Rabita Gautam (19), a four-year-old girl child of Aurahiroad and Ashish Adhikari (15), all the local residents.

In the period of one week until last Sunday, three persons were bitten by snakes, in and around the Mukhyachowk area of the municipality.

Gautam, who was studying at the Bachelor's level in Janata Multiple Campus, Bardibas, was bitten by a snake of Krait species on Thursday.

Similarly, the child died from snakebite at Aurahiroad on Tuesday while Ashish breathed his last on Sunday.

It has been learnt that all three victims were bitten by kriat, a species of venomous snake.

The bite mark of krait is hard to be detected and the victim feels as if being pricked by an ant. This causes the victim to neglect the seriousness of the bite resulting in the delay in treatment.

The bite of a cobra is however different and more conspicuous with a huge sound in course of the attack. All three victims to fall this week have been found to be bitten by krait.

Meanwhile, Bardibas' social worker and politician Ambika Prasad Gautam has blamed the shortage of anti-venom, lack of safe storage of anti-venom, lack of necessary equipment and management problems at the Bardibas-based Snake Bite Centre for forcing the patients to seek treatment elsewhere at times of emergencies and even causing loss of life.

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