According to the newspaper, “Daily Star”, the 30-year-old man was on a hunting trip with two friends, when a swarm of bees attacked, and they were afraid of stings.
The three fishermen jumped into the piranha-rich lake, but one of them could not get out after that.
When specialized divers exhumed the body of the victim fisherman, they found that the piranha had devoured parts of the face, ear and other parts of the body.
The body was found, about 4 meters from the shore of the lake, and this tragic accident occurred in the rural region of Brislandia de Minas.
This area is located about 600 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, while the name of the victim was not mentioned.
The local authorities granted permission for the family to bury the victim’s body, after ruling out any criminal suspicion in the death.
It was not clear whether the victim drowned in the water as a result of being attacked by a piranha, or if he drowned and died, then the fish ate parts of the body.
The data indicate that piranha bites are not new. In the first half of 2007, 200 attacks were reported by this fish, in an artificial lake near the city of Palmas, central Brazil.
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