Huge poisonous snake found inside voting machine during polling

An unusual “visitor” in a polling booth in the Kannur Lok Sabha constituency, held up voting for a brief while Tuesday.

A small snake was found inside a VVPAT machine in a booth at Mayyil Kandakkai in the constitutency, which is witnessing heavy polling, triggering panic among officials and voters. However, the reptile was soon removed and voting resumed.

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The Kannur constituency, where sitting MP P.K. Sreemathy (CPI-M-LDF), K. Surendran (Cong-UDF) and C.K. Padmanabhan (BJP-NDA) are trying their luck, is witnessing brisk polling since the morning.