This is the moment an amateur rescuer is bitten by a cobra whilst trying to capture it.

The incident occurred at Sunabeda of Koraput District in Odisha, India, on October 3.

Neighbours called a local rescuer Sukumar Mahanadia, 40, after finding a cobra inside a building.

A video shot by an onlooker shows Sukumar struggling to capture the snake. As he fails to persuade the cobra to get into a bag, he tries to hold it by its neck. And that is when it bites him.

After the nasty bite, Sukumar left the cobra at the spot and rushed to the hospital. The doctors managed to save his life, but his hand is swollen and he is still in the hospital.

The abandoned cobra also left the spot and entered another building in the vicinity.

Locals called the Snake Helpline, which sent a volunteer who later managed to capture the cobra and released it in a forest nearby.

This is the moment an amateur rescuer struggles to capture a cobra and is bitten by it.

The man abandoned the cobra on the street and rushed to a hospital to save his life.

The incident occurred at Sunabeda of Koraput District in Odisha, India, on October 3.

A cobra was spotted inside an old building and the neighbours called a local rescuer Sukumar Mahanadia, 40.

Sukumar managed to capture the cobra and bring it out. But he struggled to put that inside the bag.

A video shot by an onlooker shows Sukumar struggling to handle the snake. As he fails to persuade the cobra to get into the bag, he tries to hold it by its neck. And that is when it bites him.

After the nasty bite, Sukumar left the cobra on the spot and rushed to the hospital. The doctors managed to save his life, but his hand is swollen and he is still in the hospital.

The abandoned cobra also left the spot and entered another building in the vicinity. The local residents called an animal welfare organisation, Snake Helpline, which sent its volunteer, Sujit Kumar Mohanty, to rescue the snake.

He managed to a capture the snake, put it in a bag and later release in a far away natural habitat.

“Snake rescue is a job of great responsibility and rescuers should never be casual in their approach,“ said Subhendu Mallik, General Secretary of Snake helpline.