The 29-year-old Indonesian female singer passed away on Sunday, after being bitten by a king cobra while performing on stage in a village in Karawang, West Java in Indonesia. Pop star Irma Bule, who was famous for using reptiles in her acts, was doing a song and dance number on April 3, when attacked by one of the two snakes she used as props. Even after the snake bite, Bule continued singing for 45 more minutes until she finally collapsed and died.

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Irma Bule is famous in Dangdut circles, a genre of Indonesian folk music. She is no stranger to daring on-stage antics. Bule’s shows usually see her performing with venomous snakes such as king cobras, reticulated pythons and boa constrictors.

According to eye-witnesses, Bule had accidentally stepped on the cobra’s tail in the middle of her second song which caused it to bite her in the thigh. Unfortunately, the venom spread fast into her bloodstream before a snake handler pulled it away. She was rushed to the hospital but later succumbed to the snake venom and died. Bule’s mother said that her daughter had believed that the king cobra at her show had been de-fanged.