Goa Congress leader Ketan Bhatikar dies of snakebite

PANAJI: (May 15) Goa Congress leader Ketan Bhatikar, who was the partys face during the recently cancelled Ponda assembly bypoll, died after being bitten by a snake, police said on Friday.

The incident occurred on Thursday night when Bhatikar (38) was on his way to Dandeli village in Karnataka.

Bhatikar had got down at Karmal Ghat, on the Goa-Karnataka border, for some reason, when a snake bit him. He was rushed to the Primary Health Centre in Dharbandora, Goa, where doctors declared him brought dead, a police official said.