Snake found in Games tennis venue

"We were requested by the Games authorities to help them rescue a snake spotted in the R.K. Khanna tennis stadium," Kartick Satyanarayan, head of animal conservation group Wildlife SOS India, told AFP.

"We caught the snake and we removed it from the premises." On Sunday, South African High Commissioner Harris Mbulelo Mejeke also complained about a snake found in one of the rooms of his country's athletes in the Games village. "If snakes are found we can't ask our teams to stay there," Mejeke told reporters before entering the village. "That was a threat to the lives of our athletes. Very disappointing," he added.