MIRI: Several items that fell off a rack inside a storage room of a house in Jalan Permaisuri Bandar Baru Permyjaya here led to the discovery of a one-metre long cobra on Friday (Sept 4).
According to Miri Civil Defence Force (APM) officer Captain (PA) Usman Harto, upon seeing several items mysteriously falling off from the shelf, the 30 year-old house owner immediately walked into the storage room to inspect.
He was later stunned when finding out the poisonous reptile curling behind several boxes on the rack.
Fearing for his safety, the man immediately made a call to alert APM Miri and asked for help around 9.37am.
Four APM personnel rushed to the scene and managed to catch the snake and secured the area within 27 minutes.
