In clip handler pulls snake away just before it can bite crowd members. A cobra can administer enough venom in a single bite to kill 20 people.

The audience were enjoying the bizarre act at a venue in Phuket, when the snake leapt into the crowd arching its neck at terrified crowd members.

While cobras do not possess the most powerful venom, they can deliver such a large amount of neurotoxin that a single bite could kill 200 people or one elephant.

Cobras are known to be shy but when confronted they are a force to be reckoned with and can raise up to one third of their bodies straight off the ground and still move forward to attack.

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