Staff from England's South Essex Wildlife Hospital were dispatched to a business to capture a saw scaled viper when the venomous snake was found to have stowed away from India in a shipping container. Photo courtesy of the South Essex Animal Hospital/Facebook
Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Staff from a British animal hospital were summoned to a local business to capture a highly venomous snake that stowed away in a shipping container from India.
The South Essex Wildlife Hospital in Orsett, England, said in a Facebook post that a call came in from a local business about a snake found in a shipping container that arrived from India.
The post said the snake was a saw scaled viper, a species described as "way up there in the top few most deadly snakes."
A veterinarian and the hospital's reptile expert were dispatched to the business to capture the venomous reptile.
The hospital said the snake was locked into a box and secured for transport to "an appropriate facility."