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Two people dead after swarms of spiders attack Indian town   - NY Daily News

Two people dead after swarms of spiders attack Indian town
Residents were enjoying a festival when scores of the eight-legged creatures descended on the celebration and began biting people
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By Christine Roberts / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Monday, June 4, 2012, 3:28 PM
Updated: Monday, June 4, 2012, 4:17 PM

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Two people have died from spider bites after swarms of the poisonous arachnid invaded a town in India in a scene that could have come right out of a horror movie.

Residents of the northeastern town of Sadiya were enjoying a Hindu festival this May when scores of the eight-legged creatures descended on the celebration and began biting people, The Times of India reports.

Purnakanta Buragohain and an unnamed schoolboy died days later. Several other people sought treatment for the bites, including local resident Juntu Gogoi, who spent a day in the hospital suffering from excruciating pain and nausea.

Panicked local officials are considering spraying the town with insecticide to ward off future attacks. Scientists, however, say they don't even know what type of spider is to blame.

The spider could be a tarantula, a funnel-web spider, a black wishbone or an entirely new species.

Dr. L.R. Saikia, head of the Department of Life Sciences at Dibrugarh University, said that one thing is for sure: the spiders are "highly aggressive."

"It leaps at anything that comes close," Saikia told The Times of India. "Some of the victims claimed the spider latched on to them after biting."

It is unclear if the two victims died from the spiders' venom, as both were cremated before an autopsy could be performed.

Dr. Anil Phatowali, superintendent of the town's hospital, said he can’t be sure if the spiders were even venomous because he did not administer an antivenin dose.

The bite victims may have fallen ill because they went to witch doctors before seeking hospital treatment. The witch doctors opened the victims’ wounds with razors and drained their blood.

“That could have also made them sick,” Phatowali said.
 
RIP to the dead. But other news reports say that one of them died from snakebites. The other wasnt bitten at all

Its quite interesting that spiders( a whole lot of them) start to attack people at the same time like an army.
 
do you know why such dumb topics gets discussed here!!!!
it's because when someone googles about it or searches in the net def.pk comes right on the top...

def.pk earns big $$$$$ because of huge Indian traffic here who wan't to prove their patriotism...funny we help this forum to get $$$$$ for badmouthing our country...

wake up indians

wonder why such retarded threads don't immediately get trashed by mods....its a honey trap
 
I thought this had happened
 
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There are 2 fanatics bigots here, who even like the death of two childrens !!
God save the mankind!!
On topic: the deaths are not confirmed...
 
a pakistani person laughing at death of two kids, why I am not surprised? why I am not shocked?
are people becoming so insensitive due weekly bombings and targeted killings that they have started laughing at death of innocent kids?

@ spider bite deaths are seen all around the world more so in desert areas.
Most venomous spiders are found in south america and australia.
In India such cases are extremely rare.
 
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