Farmer spends week with cobras

Bangkok - A Thai farmer completed a potentially deadly stunt yesterday after a week locked up with scores of deadly snakes in…

Bangkok - A Thai farmer completed a potentially deadly stunt yesterday after a week locked up with scores of deadly snakes in a Bangkok shopping centre. Boonreung Buachan (27), from north-eastern Si Saket province, had spent the previous 168 hours confined in a small glass-walled room with 100 cobras and 10 venomous centipedes.

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