Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Soups made with the flesh of deadly spitting cobras are considered a rare delicacy in South China – but preparing it turned out to be a fatal move for one chef.Peng Fan, from Foshan, was proud to have it on his menu and was preparing the dish for diners when an unusual tragedy happened.Having decapitated the Indochinese Spitting Cobra, he spent 20 minutes making the soup, then started tidying the kitchen.
He picked up the head to throw in the bin when suddenly, it bit him. The venom from spitting cobras is particularly nasty stuff.It contains neurotoxins which can kill within 30 minutes, paralysing the victims and suffocating them to death.
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