Venomous snake found in flyer's handbag

NEW DELHI: Snake on a plane could have become a frightening reality on an international flight out of India had an alert security personnel not spotted the poisonous reptile while screening a passenger's handbag. This find was made by a CISF screener at Cochin airport on Sunday while x-raying the bag of an Abu Dhabi-bound passenger.

"Sub inspector PK Mourya was screening the hand bags when he detected some suspicious item in the a passenger's bag flying to Abu Dhabi on an Air India express flight ," said an official.

"Constable Hirdesh Kumar checked the bag and found a live young one of a snake inside it which looked like Indian Krait / Blue Krait. The passenger, a 40-year-old resident of Palakkad in Kerala, was handed over to police.