A man was caught on camera as he was was bitten by a poisonous snake when he tried to film the reptile hiding in the sand for hunting.

The brief film, published in the Saudi daily Sada showed the man pointed his lens towards the snake at a close distance when it lunged at him.

Pictures published by the paper showed the bite caused a big lump on the man’s hand before it was removed by doctors at hospital. It said the snake was killed later but it did not make clear where the incident took place in Saudi Arabia.