Became friends with snake that bit me thrice: Salman Khan

Actor Salman Khan was bitten by a non-venomous snake at his farmhouse on 25 December. The actor, who turned 56 today, was rushed to the hospital where he was given treatment. 

Talking about the incident in detail, Khan told the Indian Express newspaper, “It wasn’t much. A snake had entered one of the rooms; the farmhouse is quite in the jungle in Panvel. When the snake entered the room, kids got scared so I went in to see and asked for a stick. The stick that came was a small one so I asked for a longer stick, and they got one, with which I picked up the snake with a lot of love and brought it out, and the snake wrapped itself on the stick and then it started climbing upwards. It came quite close to my hand so I caught it with my other hand and dropped the stick to be able to leave the snake [in the jungle].” 

He added, “The villagers around know what [type of] snakes come around. This was a kandhari snake, and they started screaming ‘kandhari, kandhari, kandhari’. That’s when the snake bit me once, then there was more chaos when they screamed ‘chaavla, chaavla, chaavla’ [the snake bit], that’s when the snake bit me again. Then they all screamed ‘hospital, hospital, hospital’, saying that I should be taken to a hospital quickly. There was so much commotion, the snake was a bit venomous, and it bit me again. I was taken to the hospital, and there we came to know that it is a different kind of snake, not the great kandhari.” 

Khan was taken to the MGM Hospital in Kamothe, Navi Mumbai. Khan praised the medical staff, saying, “My sister was quite scared, but I made friends with the snake and got a picture clicked with it. It must have also bit me because it was scared. It was good that this hospital was very quick. They were well equipped, they had an anti-venom for all kinds of snake bites. Our commissioner of police Bipin Kumar sir, our MLA Sandeep Naik, all rushed to the hospital too, and it helped a lot (sic)."