The deceased has been identified as a seven-year-old Yaghya Bahadur Karki. [break]
According to a local, Tul Bahadur Buda, the boy died after the family failed to rush him to the hospital and instead opted for a treatment at home.
The family was forced to treat the boy at home due to lack of a health clinic in the VDC, informed deceased´s mother Bishnu Kala.
Karki was a second grader at the Surya Jyoti Secondary School.
A buffalo belonging to the family has also died in the same incident, after being bitten by the snake.
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