PERNEM
A 43-year-old man died after being bitten by a snake near his house at Mhauswada-Pernem.
Sunil Sawal, who hailed from Revora, noticed a snake near his house and picked it thinking it was non-poisonous.
The snake bit him but Sunil managed to put the snake in a jar, before falling unconscious.
He was taken to a hospital but he died along the way. The body has been sent to Goa Medical College for an autopsy.
