Panchanand Mahaldar, 60, and his wife Urmilla Devi, 50, with a photograph of their eight-year-old grandson Gaurav Kumar, who died of snakebite in July this year. Gaurav visited his grandparents at Singhia in Purnea in eastern state of Bihar for a summer holiday when he was bitten. Photos: Taniya Dutta / The National

Snake-bite deaths surge in eastern India as changing climate forces reptiles out of nests


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