This is the moment a deadly cobra spits venom at its rescuer after being captured.

As Mirza Mohd Arif, a snake rescuer lifted the cobra on a stick after the rescue, the deadly reptile shot a stream of venom trying to aim at his eye.

Though the venom missed Mirza, who was standing behind, it fell on the camera held by his associate S K Niyaz, who was filming it.

''I was shocked when the venom squirted in the air and fell on the camera. I wiped it off carefully with a piece of cloth,'' said Niyaz.

''Though I have filmed several videos, I had never seen a cobra squirting venom before,'' he added.

Mirza recalled that a cobra had similarly squirted venom at him a few years ago.

“It fell on my eye and left it swollen for days. I spent nearly 40,000 rupees (500 pounds) on treatment,” he said.

Tough unnerved by the venom shooting at him, Mirza restrained the cobra and removed several ticks from its body.

Mirza was responding to a distress call from a factory in Bhadrak district in East India on January 11.

A worker spotted the snake in a washroom and ran out in panic. Mirza rescued the cobra and later released it in a nearby forest.

Many snake species shoot venom through holes in their fangs aiming at the eyes of the predators.

This is the stunning moment (1.03 minutes) a deadly monocled cobra spits venom at its rescuer after capture.

As Mirza Mohd Arif, a snake rescuer lifted the cobra on his snake stick after rescue, the deadly reptile shot a stream of venom trying to aim at his eye.

Though the venom missed Mirza, who was standing behind, it fell on the camera held by his associate S K Niyaz, who was filming it.

“I was shocked when the venom squirted in the air and fell on the camera. I wiped it off carefully with a piece of cloth,” said Niyaz.

“Though I have filmed several videos, I had never seen a cobra squirting venom before, : he added.

Mirza recalled that a cobra had similarly squirted venom at him a few years ago.

“It fell on my eye and left it swollen for days. I spent nearly 40,000 rupees (500 pounds) on treatment,” he said.

Tough unnerved by the venom shooting at him, Mirza restrained the cobra and removed several ticks from its body.

Mirza was responding to a distress call from a factory in Bhadrak district in East India on January 11.

A worker spotted the snake in a washroom and ran out in panic. Mirza rescued the cobra and later released it in a nearby forest.

Many snake species shoot venom through holes in their fangs aiming at the eyes of the predators.

But monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia) was traditionally seen as a species that could not spit. Researchers have only recently documented that monocled cobras can also spit venom when threatened.

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