Chinese chief prepare meat dish Cobra head Died when the snake bit - 20 minutes after the Is that of Corto.
Peng Fan victim had prepared a special dish of spitting cobra Indochina, a rare delicacy in Asia, where snakes eating is commonplace. But when he went to pull his head cut of snake in the trash, is bit - quick action to inject venom.
The police said that Mr. Peng He died before rescue dock That Could antidote to hospital. That Diners ate in the restaurant at the time described the screams of the long baking of tragedy.
Restaurant Breakfast Lin Sun, 44, who is in the restaurant was with his wife when he said his "we were in the restaurant for a birthday meal for mid wife when there was a great shock to repent."
"I do not know what was happening but could RTI Screams from the kitchen.
"If a doctor made calls to the restaurant, but unfortunately, when the man was dead came medical care is then. Learned of our our food that does not continue."
A Spokesman for the police said: "This is a very rare case, but it seems to be just an accident Prepared the snake itself was just unlucky.".
"There was nothing to do just that is Could save man. Only the antidote would have helped, but was not given in time. Tragic This was just a accident."
The snake was cut in cubes to be converted in snake soup delicacy in the region and a coveted dish in fancy restaurants. China has experienced asked by a rise in products of snakes, not only in restaurants but also for traditional medicine.
Snake expert Yang Hong Chang - who has spent 40 years studying Cobras - says all reptiles can run up to an hour after losing body parts of your body or even the whole.
Yang said. "It is perfectly possible the head is kept alive and hand the bit Peng When a snake has lost his head, as it is effectively dead body is basic functions have stopped, but there is a Reflexive action.
"This That signifi snakes to bite His Capable of and inject venom of the same after his head was cut."