50-yr-old woman dies of snake bite in Phagwara

A 50 year-old woman died of snakebite at nearby Palahi village, police said Monday.

The woman, identified as Rajwinder Kaur, was taking out dry fodder from a room of her house for serving it to cattle heads on Sunday when she was bitten by a snake, they said.

She was admitted to a civil hospital here where she died, they said, adding that the body was handed over to the family after post-mortem.