Woman breeds snakes to support child

A Saudi woman has resorted to a perilous way to support her daughter following her divorce from her husband—breeding snakes.

A YouTube film showed the veiled woman, Mazina Al Halees and her 12-year-old daughter Ghada fearlessly holding massive snakes around their necks while a number of reptiles were seen kept in glass boxes at the woman’s home in the Gulf Kingdom.

Okaz daily published the film under the title “snake’s poison rather than poverty” and quoted the woman as saying she resorted to breeding snakes to support her daughter.

It did not say how Al Halees earns her living by breeding snakes but the woman said she allows people to take photographs with her snakes. The film did not make clear where Al Halees got the snakes from or where she lives in Saudi Arabia.