New Delhi - In India, an eight-year-old boy bit a venomous cobra snake that later died as a result, according to a media report.

The boy had been playing outside in a village in Chhattisgarh state when the snake wrapped itself around his hand and bit him, the New Indian Express reported.

"The snake got wrapped around my hand and bit me. I was in great pain," the boy told the paper. "As the reptile didn’t budge when I tried to shake it off, I bit it hard twice. It all happened in a flash."

The boy's family quickly took him to a clinic after the incident occurred, where an uninvolved doctor said he was given antivenom, according to the paper.

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The boy appeared to recover quickly because it was a dry bite in which the snake did not release venom. Such bites are painful, but there are only local symptoms around the bite, a snake expert explained to the outlet.

Snakebites are a recurring occurrence in India, with more than 63,000 people worldwide dying from snakebites in 2019, about 51,000 of them in India, according to a recently published study by James Cook University in Australia.

Poor access to antivenoms is one reason for many deaths in rural areas.