A three-and-a-half feet non-venomous checkered keelback snake ventured into a fishing net to eat fish and got trapped.

A five-feet-long venomous banded krait saw the helpless keelback snake and entered the fishing net to eat the smaller snake. It also got trapped.

When Gagan Swain, a fisherman on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar in eastern India, went to check on his net on December 13, he was shocked to find two snakes along with his other catch.
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He called Snake Helpline and a volunteer Susant Behera rushed to the spot. Susant first removed the deadly banded krait and bagged it. Then he easily freed the checkered keelback snake with the help of the Swain.

The two snakes were released at separate locations in a natural habitat later.

General secretary of Snake Helpline Subhendu Mallik said: "In two similar incidents in the past, the non-venomous snakes were killed by the venomous snakes inside the fishing net. In this case, the lucky keelback survived as water current may have swept aside the predator before it could reach its target.”