Enormous 12ft king cobra removed from engine of school bus

PUPILS hoping for a quiet ride to school were given a nasty surprise after discovering a monster 12ft king cobra hiding inside their bus.

By George Mills 

The footage shows three wildlife handlers wrangling with a giant snake trapped in the engine of the bus.

One of the brave blokes holds the snake’s head, while the other two untangle its long, winding body from inside the machinery.

After a couple of seconds the creature is freed, showing the formidable size of the predator.

The video was reportedly shot near a school outside the Thai capital of Bangkok, before going viral online after being uploaded to video-sharing site Imgur.

“I was worried and wondering "Where's the head?" wrote one viewer.

“Then I realised that the guy with the cap already had the head, not the tail and what they were doing was slowly getting the cobra out without hurting it. Good job everyone.”

So-called the king cobra due to it’s immense size and fatally toxic venom, the magnificent hunters’ diet consists primarily of other snakes.

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The amount of venom delivered in a single bite is capable of killing 20 men – or one elephant – making the snakes among the most deadly on the planet.

The video comes just days after footage emerged of villagers in India performing a similarly brazen reptile rescue.

Professional snake handler Krushna Chandra Gochhayat managed to subdue the wild killer with his bare hands during the heart-stopping clip.

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