Article 6EM4E Queensland man in 60s dies from snake bite after removing animal from friend’s leg

Queensland man in 60s dies from snake bite after removing animal from friend’s leg

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Donna Lu
from Environment | The Guardian on (#6EM4E)

Ambulance service uncertain of the species that bit the man but says symptoms point to a brown snake

A man in his 60s has died from a snake bite in central Queensland, after helping to remove a snake which had coiled around his friend's leg.

Two men were treated by the Queensland Ambulance Service in Koumala, a town 60km south of Mackay, shortly after 6.30pm on Saturday evening.

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