A two-year-old got her own back after a snake sank its fang into her - by biting back.
Earlier this week, the toddler - who has only been identified by her initials as S.E. - was outside playing in the back garden of the family home in the village of Kantar in the city of Bingol in the Turkish province of the same name when her screams brought neighbours running.
The neighbours found the little girl had a 50cm (20 inch) snake clamped in her mouth, together with a painful-looking bite mark on her lower lip.
According to local media reports the neighbour killed the snake, performed first aid on the girl and called paramedics.
The little girl was taken to Bingol Maternity and Children's Hospital where she was kept under observation for 24 hours.
She is now reported to be well and recovering.
Her relieved dad Mehmet Ercan said her daughter bit the snake back as a reaction.
Mr Ercan - who was at work when the snake struck - explained: "Allah has protected her, really.
"Our neighbours have told me that the snake was in the hand of my child, she was playing with it and then it bit her.
"Then she has bitten the snake back as a reaction."
On other news, footage has emerged of a young boy with an extremely swollen face after he was repeatedly stung by bees when he poked their hive.
The incident happened when the boy went to the countryside in the town of Zigong, in south-western China 's Sichuan province.
The boy was taken to the countryside by his mother so that he could play, reports local media.
However, the curious boy ended up poking a beehive with a stick which led to him being stung by at least three bees.
