The dead body of Prapawee Prawat was found at 7.40am by her 70-year-old grandmother who had gone to wake the girl up for school. The girl stayed with her grandmother and her 90-year-old great-grandmother after her parents divorced.

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As police and rescue workers rushed to inspect the scene, they found that the girl had a bite mark in her index finger. When they searched the room, they found a big cobra coiled under a folded blanket next to the bed.&nbsp; 
Rescue workers killed the snake. Police concluded that the cobra had bitten the girl at least eight hours before her body was found. The girl&rsquo;s body was sent for autopsy to a hospital to confirm the cause of the death.

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Girl, 9, fatally bitten by cobra

A nine-year-old girl was fatally bitten by a cobra that slithered into her bed in Surat Thani province’s Chai Buri district, police said on Wednesday morning.