{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_d2pqvydr7uyiag7etenq","title":"World’s first international snake congress held in Kandy","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/worlds-first-international-snake-congress-held-in-kandy-d2pqvydr7u","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_d2pqvydr7uyiag7etenq","seq":1455669,"kind":"article","title":"World’s first international snake congress held in Kandy","url":"http://island.lk/worlds-first-international-snake-congress-held-in-kandy","summary":"Text and Pic By S. K. Samaranayake Nearly 10,000 snakebite cases are reported in Sri Lanka annually, with hundreds of people dying from snakebite-related complications, experts said as the world’s first international congress dedicated to snakes got underway in Kandy yesterday. The four-day 1st World Congress on Snakes – 2026, held under the theme “Snakes, […]","published":"2026-10-02T23:45:34Z","seen":"2026-10-03T00:36:31Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-island-lk-63b2e8","name":"island.lk","domain":"island.lk","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q7742673","name":"The Island","type":"newspaper","country":"LK","designations":["daily newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-island-lk-63b2e8","topics":["asia","news"],"authors":["Thilina Walpola"],"entities":[{"id":"Q203197","name":"Kandy","type":"place"}],"story":"st_d2pqvydr7uyiag7etenq","category":"environment","category_p":0.25,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.1899999976158142,"political":0.03999999910593033}]}