a group of bathers cooling off in the paranariver in rosario, argentina, found themselves under attack by a school of piranha-like fish. "more than 70 people were injured, including7 children who lost parts of toes or fingers. ... one health official said there were somepeople that the fish had literally torn bits and pieces of flesh from." (via bbc)
How To Adopt A Relative Child In The Philippines, the swimmers were cooling off from scorchingtemperatures on christmas day when they were suddenly and aggressively attacked. (via skynews) "the emergency services said isolated injurieswere common from the fish, a relative of the piranha, but a mass attack on this scale wasexceptional." (via euronews)
exceptional, yes, but al jazeera explainsthere could be a simple explanation for what caused it. warm weather leads some speciesof fish to gather near the surface of the water. and at the time of the attack, the area hadbeen experiencing triple digit temperatures. while there weren't any deaths, the los angelestimes reports there have been several fatal attacks in recent years in the amazon riverbasin.
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