Deadly Snake Kills Woman
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In Papua
IT is not generally known that the world’s deadliest snake, the taipan, is found in Papua and New Guinea, as veil as in Northeast Australia.
Two taipans were reported in Port Vloresby at the end of April. A woman vas bitten when working in her garden in Hanuabada village, and died hr 20 minutes. Later, a taipan was sighted mder a lavatory in the Papuan police jarracks, Konedobu, and was killed by a Samarai man, with a long pole.
A professional snake collector was killed W a taipan in Queensland, last year.