Snake in a chain: lucky escape for Australian woman after bite from deadly reptile caught in bike chain

A woman in her sixties has had a lucky escape in regional Australia after being bitten by a two-metre-long eastern brown snake, one of the world's most venomous, The Guardian reports. She was cycling on the popular northern rivers rail trail near Burringbar, in the Tweed shire of northern New South Wales, on Thursday when she ran over the snake, which became tangled in her bike chain. According to The Guardian, she is now recovering from the bite.

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