“None including the deceased himself had seen any spider biting him. And from the nature of the wound and its after-effects, it seemed to be a case of snake bite, especially krait. Nothing, however, can be conclusively said, as no post-mortem was done,” Dr Saikia said.http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/...d=jun0212/at09On the second death, i.e., of Rituraj Gogoi of the same area, and widely attributed to a spider bite, Dr Saikia said that Gogoi was bitten by ‘something’ when he had put his hand into a termite mound.
“None could be sure what bit him, and in this case also the inflictor of the wound is likely to be a snake or even a rodent,” he said.
Move along people, just ToI at work again...



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