Snake causes panic at accident scene

Snake causes panic at accident scene

OUT OF THE BAG: An African puff adder like this caused panic

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By Lindie Whiz

A BUS crash can cause serious panic and trauma for survivors. Then throw in a snake at that scene!

This is what survivors of a bus crash near the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport in Zimbabwe’s second largest city of Bulawayo had to deal with, reports said.

Local media reports said the overloaded Super Godlwayo bus leaving Bulawayo and bound for Nkayi veered off the road and rested on its side last Saturday.

Two of the 160 people on the bus died and 25 others suffered minor injuries.

The Sunday News said the puff adder “fell off one of the passengers’ luggage, sending all around into panic mode”.

Raising suspicions of witchcraft, the paper quoted witnesses saying one woman was seen “searching around as if she had lost something valuable”.

The same woman, another witness said, was “walking around aimlessly”.

When the snake came out of the bag, a small packet of sorghum seeds “that most people thought was the snake’s food” also fell out.

One of the bus’ “brave conductors”, the Sunday News said, killed the snake.

The bag from which the snake came out was never claimed.

Zimbabwe is a nation steeped in beliefs in the supernatural. Snakes appearing in public places are generally associated with witchcraft.

More specifically, in both Shona and Ndebele culture, a puff adder is known as "the snake of the ansestral spirits" ("inyoka yamadlozi/nyoka yemidzimu").
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