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Sankt Augustin (dpa / lnw) - A stranger has left two snakes at the edge of the road in Sankt Augustin in the Rhein-Sieg district.

A passer-by discovered a terrarium in the Siegauen there, as the fire brigade announced on Wednesday.

A snake was still in the open container - another had already moved out.

The alarmed firefighters caught the animal and put it back in the terrarium.

Experts helped identify the snakes as corn snakes.

The non-poisonous animals posed no danger.

It was initially unclear who had exposed them.

Apparently someone had "no longer been in the mood for the animals," said a spokesman.

They were handed over to the animal shelter in Troisdorf.

© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210331-99-44519 / 2

Notification of the fire brigade