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Snakes beware: reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper
Amin Mandol was harvesting peanuts from a char – a bank of sand and silt – in the Padma, the lower part of the Ganges, when he heard the scream. While pulling up some roots, one of his workers had encountered a snake coiled among the plants. Other workers …