A SLITHERING nightmare has been unleashed on a Chinese village after nearly 900 snakes escaped a flooded breeding farm. Extreme weather brought by a devastating typhoon caused the farm to collapse

Learn how a recent typhoon-caused flood in southern China unleashed hundreds of venomous snakes onto unsuspecting residential areas, with one death already reported. A typhoon that floods your town is already a stressful and frightening experience.

Around 900 snakes, including venomous cobras, had escaped from a farm in a village in Hengzhou, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region after it was damaged by flooding that has devastated the region,

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