Snake digging incident in Guiping, Guangxi

Nanning 1 1 month 10 (Reporter Wang Gang) The relevant departments of Guiping City, Guangxi Province said this afternoon that the rumor that "a snake of 140 years old was dug up in Guiping, Guangxi" was pure fiction.

/kloc-on the morning of 0/0, the photo channel of a domestic website released the news of "snake essence of 140-year-old was dug up on the mountain near Xishan in Guiping, Guangxi", with a picture of a big snake. The article said, "At five o'clock in the morning on August 4, two big snakes were indeed dug up on the mountain digging bag, one of which was dead and the other (smaller) was gone. Verified by the relevant departments, the snake (dead) is a rare snake, with golden yellow body, even and hard scales, highly toxic, length of 1670 cm, and a snake crown. This snake is about 140 years old and weighs 300 kilograms. In the past few days, the comrades of the Forestry Bureau and the public security experts are trying their best to catch this escaped snake (there is no result yet) so as not to cause harm to the society ... The driver who dug the snake was seriously frightened on the way to a hospital in the city and died of a sudden myocardial infarction ... "

The article also said that the owner of the construction team then pulled the big snake to Guigang Wild Rescue Station. The full text 1400 words. After publication, it attracted many news websites to reprint.

The propaganda department of Guiping said, "I have never heard of this, and the Xishan Scenic Area in Guiping knows nothing about it. I don't know who did it. "

The office of Guiping Forestry Bureau also said it didn't know about it. "And Guiping has no such a big snake. The big snake in the picture should be found in the virgin forest. "

The reporter's online search found that this picture has been active in various forums for a long time, and it was found in Liaoning, Guangdong and Thailand. The characters are all the same except the places.