ALEXANDER COUNTY, N.C. (WSVN) — A boy suffered a bad bite at a day care in North Carolina when he encountered a reptile, triggering questions among loved ones as to why the staff did not call 911.

Family members shared a photo of their 4-year-old’s swollen hand, days after, they said, a snake bit him near his ring finger while at New Beginnings Child Enrichment Center in Alexander County.

Loved ones said the child was playing near a sandbox when the copperhead snake attacked.

“The director got up and said, ‘He got snake bit,'” said Brook Cooper, the boy’s aunt, during a phone interview.

The child’s guardian had to rush him to a hospital.

Day care workers confirmed it happened on the playground, adding a worker killed the snake after the attack.

Cooper said they were first told the sw

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