Poisonous king cobras that were hatched is crawling in the package. Photo: screenshot of video posted by Pear Video

 Twenty-five of more than 500 eggs of poisonous snakes a man in East China bought and transported hatched under hot weather conditions.

Staff at a railway station in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province found snakes crawling in a luggage room on July 29.  

The snakes were in a package from South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to Jiujiang.

The staff alerted the police and wild animal experts, according to a video posted by Pear Video.

Experts said the snakes were king cobras and the police found the package's owner, a man surnamed Qi.

Qi had bought 510 cobra eggs to be turned into medicinal wine and sold on the internet.

Eleven of the 25 eggs that hatched bore live cobras. 

The railway police cited a regulation that parcels weighing more than 20 kilograms with beasts including snakes and other live animals are forbidden.

The case has been referred to the local forestry police for further investigation.

Some netizens jokingly praised the seller of the snake eggs, saying he's honest and the eggs are real. 

Pear Video