Posts Tagged ‘Quang Ngai’
Watch out for snakes on a train!
Vietnamese authorities are on alert for animal smugglers after four bags of deadly snakes were found on a train from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, according to local press reports.
The bags contained an undetermined number of snakes including some king cobras, the on-line news service VnExpress reported.
A guard and a conductor found them while inspecting the train when it made a stop at Quang Ngai railway station on Thursday, the website reported. The guard and conductor were not injured.
Passengers panicked when they heard about the snakes…NSS
The snakes, which are protected by law in Vietnam, were handed over to the Quang Ngai forest protection agency on Friday and released into the wild…
The king cobra is the world’s longest venomous snake with a length up to 13 feet according to New York’s Bronx Zoo…
I could tell you how far away to stay from a cobra to be safe – but, I doubt if most of you need that particular information as part of your skill set. 
