Deadly brown snake bites Queensland woman in her bed while another serpent seen in fridge ice dispenser

Patient in her 20s in a serious but stable condition after being airlifted to Toowoomba hospital

A Queensland woman has been bitten in her bed by the world’s second most venomous snake, the state’s ambulance service says.

The eastern brown snake bit the woman, who is in her 20s, on her hand in the early hours of Friday on a rural property in the Western Downs, two and a half hours west of Brisbane.

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