An extraordinary twelve cobras were found in a hardware shop in Gaya, in northern India's Bihar state on Wednesday 1 November.

When the shopkeeper saw the first one of the snakes he was scared and called the local snake catcher, Subhash Singh.

The snake expert soon arrived at Ashish Hardware and got to work.

Wearing some gloves, Mr Singh started taking out the snakes from the hardware shop and putting each of them in bags, though the twisting reptiles did not make the latter job easy.

After packing all the snakes in two separate sacks, they were taken away and later released into the forest.

A crowd of people gathered to see the snake rescues. The spectators were both scared and impressed at the calm skills of the snake catcher.

12 cobra snakes were found out of a hardware shop in Gaya, Bihar on November 1 ( Wednesday).

When the shopkeeper suddenly saw a snake, he got badly scared. The operator of Ashish Hardware informed the snake charmer of the area, Subhash Singh. The snake charmer Subhash Singh arrived on call and then started catching the snake.

The snake charmer Subhash Singh, wearing some gloves in his hands, started taking out the snake from the hardware shop.

The snake charmer Subhash Singh has caught 12 snakes one after the other and took them out and packed them in a sack. After packing all the snakes in two separate sacks, they were released in the forest. People were also seen in panic while catching these snakes.

A crowd of people gathered to see the snake. People were making videos of it. People were surprised to see the snake catcher.