Venomous snake bites three-year-old Lucia Carna, prompting first-aid lesson warning

The mother of a three-year-old girl bitten by a venomous snake while playing at home is urging people to learn first-aid, which saved her daughter’s life.

Lucia Carna was playing ball with her brother and grandmother on Thursday last week when she was bitten by the venomous snake, believed to be a dugite.

Lucia had unknowingly stepped on the snake after it emerged from a garden bed in a courtyard at her grandmother’s unit complex in Mandurah.

Her grandmother Jill kept Lucia still and wrapped her legs tight with bandages until an…