Yes. Doctors failed to save the life of Sandeep Kumar. He was a jawan of the 209 CoBRA battalion who was part of an anti-Naxal operation in the dense Nurdha jungle of the West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand.

He was bitten by a Cobra snake!Though he was taken to the hospital, he died of snakebite.

A statement by the state police West Singhbhum headquarters said on Wednesday( October 1, 2025) that Kumar was engaged in an operation against a proscribed Left Wing Extremist group in Nurdha jungle within Chotanagra police station limits when the snake bite incident occurred.

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