Three rat snakes and a cobra got stuck in a huge irrigation pond near the city of Ahmednagar in Western India.

The footage shows the reptiles struggling to come out of the big reservoir.

The farmer who spotted the snakes immediately contacted the Wildlife
Rescue Society. The team, led by Akash Jadhav, rushed to the spot to rescue the animals.

Akash dived into the water, caught the three rat snakes with his hand, and pulled them out.

“Rat snakes are very agile and impossible to catch with a stick when they are in the water. Taking them by surprise is the easiest way to rescue them", explained Akash.

The cobra, however, turned out to be quite a challenge to rescue. Akash had to hold on to the rope with one hand and capture the angry cobra with the other.

A colleague who was trying to help accidentally fell into the water very close to the venomous snake.

The four reptiles were successfully rescued and released into the wild.

A farmer was baffled to see four snakes inside his huge irrigation pond near Ahmednagar in Western India.

Getting his distress call, a team from Wildlife Rescue Society led by Akash Jadhav went to the spot and saw three rat snakes and a venomous Indian cobra stranded inside the pond with a slippery and steep wall.

Akash dived into the water and caught the rat snakes with his hand and pulled them out.

He said later: “Rat snakes are very agile and impossible to catch with a stick when they are in water. Taking them by surprise is the easiest way to rescue them.”

The cobra turned out to be a challenge for Akash. It was tiring to hold on to the rope with one hand and tackle the angry cobra with another. There was an anxious moment when a colleague, who went to help him, slipped and fell into the water very close to the cobra.

But they managed to rescue the cobra as well and release all the four snakes were released in the wild later.