
A venomous West African banded cobra is missing in a Texas neighborhood
CNN
Wildlife experts are setting out traps and searching a Grand Prairie, Texas, neighborhood for a large, venomous West African banded cobra that's been missing since Tuesday evening.
"We don't know if the snake is long gone, or if the snake is still in the house, but we have not been able to locate it," Grand Prairie Police Public Information Officer Mark Beseda told CNN. Grand Prairie is a city of about 200,000 people between Dallas and Fort Worth.
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