A German tourist has died after a snake crawled into his pants and bit him as he watched a show in Egypt on a family vacation, German police said Monday.<\/p>\n
The 57-year-old man was watching the snake-charming show at a hotel in Hurghada, a popular beach holiday destination on the Red Sea, in early April.<\/p>\n
The two reptiles involved, reported to be cobras, were draped over the necks of audience members, police in southern Bavaria state said.<\/p>\n
“The ‘snake charmer’ then let one of the snakes crawl into the trousers” of the German man and it bit him in the leg, they said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n The victim showed “clear signs of poisoning” and had to be resuscitated before being taken to hospital, but he later died, it said.<\/p>\n The man — who was not named in the statement — came from the Unterallgaeu district in Bavaria and was on holiday with two relatives.<\/p>\n German police and prosecutors are investigating his death and are awaiting the results of a toxicology test.<\/p>\n When contacted by AFP, Egyptian authorities said they were not aware of the incident.<\/p>\n An estimated 5.4 million people worldwide are bitten by snakes each year and up to 138,000 people die globally from the bites, according to the World Health Organization<\/a>. The majority of fatal snake bites occur in India.<\/p>\n At least three people have died from snake bites in Southern California in just the past two months, CBS Los Angeles reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n Earlier this month, a woman died after being bitten by a rattlesnake while picking flowers in Palos Veres Estates. In March, a 25-year-old man died after\u00a0he was bitten by a rattlesnake<\/a>\u00a0while biking in Irvine, and a\u00a046-year-old woman died<\/a>\u00a0after she was bitten while hiking in Thousand Oaks.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n \n Go deeper with The Free Press\n <\/p>\n