17-month-old boy dies of suspected snakebite

SEREMBAN: A 17-month-old boy died after he was believed to have been bitten by a snake in the master bedroom of a house in Kampung Seberang Batu Hampar, Rembau, yesterday.

Rembau district police chief DSP Hazri Mohamad said the victim, Muhammad Danial Iqwan Muhammad, was playing with his three-year-old brother in the room and was accompanied by their mother when the incident happened at about 9 pm.

"The victim's mother heard her son screaming and saw a snake escaped into a hole in the room. The mother immediately examines her son and found bite marks on the victim's left palm," he said in a statement today.

Hazri said Muhammad Danial Iqwan was rushed to the Rembau Hospital for treatment but the hospital informed that the victim had died at 1 am today.

The case is classified as sudden death, he said.

-- BERNAMA