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Adam Cailler & Nicola Croal

Zoo locked down after missing deadly King Cobra makes it's great 'Houdini' escape

One of the world's most venomous snakes has broken out of a brand new zoo enclosure in Sweden and is on the run only just days after it arrived, the Daily Star reports.

Skansen Zoo in Stockholm has been forced to close down some areas onsite after a deadly King Cobra known as Sir Hiss, fled from it's new home. He has now been missing for 48 hours.

The reptile which has now been renamed after famous magician, Houdini performed it's own great escape by climbing through a lamp fixture in it's container and swinging itself from the branch of a tree to freedom. It's suspected that the poisonous snake is likely to be concealing itself somewhere in the ceiling of the reptile enclosures which have been closed until the serpent is located.

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