I am fine now: Salman Khan gives health update following snakebite

Actor Salman Khan said that is now fine after being admitted to the hospital for six hours following a snakebite incident. Contrary to previous reports, the Bollywood actor revealed that it was “a kind of poisonous snake.”

While describing the incident, Salman Khan told news agency ANI, “A snake had entered my farmhouse, I took it outside using a stick. Gradually it reached onto my hand. I then grabbed it to release, which is when it bit me thrice. It was a kind of poisonous snake. I was hospitalised for 6 hours…I am fine now.”

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Salman Khan, who turned 56 today, was bit by a snake on Saturday night at his farmhouse in Panvel. He was later taken to the hospital in Navi Mumbai’s Kamothe and was discharged the next morning.

Salman’s father Salim Khan said that the snake was later set free once it was determined the reptile was non-venomous. “We were definitely worried when it happened and Salman rushed to the nearest medical centre to get an injection that is needed in such cases. Thankfully it turned out that the snake was not poisonous,” he said, according to reports from ETimes.

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“So after we got to know that the one which had bitten Salman was not carrying any poison, we released the snake back into the jungle area, a little away but at a safe distance from our farmhouse”, he added.

Bina Kak, actor and politician who is also a close friend of the actor, said that he is “happy and absolutely healthy” after he was discharged from a hospital on Sunday, according to reports from PTI.

Salman Khan reportedly went back to his farmhouse near Panvel in the adjoining Raigad district after the incident, where he will be celebrating his 56th birthday on Monday.