A jatra actress performing with a spectacled cobra was stung on stage and died a few hours later in a North 24-Parganas village after attempts by a quack to revive her failed on Tuesday night.

A jatra artist died after a cobra that she was using as a prop bit het during a performance in Hasnabad, North 24-Parganas, on Wednesday. Instead of being taken to hospital, she was attended to by an ...