Pack of piranhas devour fisherman and rip body to the bone
A fisherman was ripped to the bone and killed by a deadly shoal of piranhas.
Odair Raash, 46, went missing after transporting cattle on an Amazonian river by Costa Marques Rondonia State, Brazil, on New Year’s Day.
His remains were found up-river but his clothes and boots remained intact.
A strap of hair and the skin on his hands was all that remained of him after the piranhas devoured his flesh and internal organs.
The bite marks are consistent with a piranha attack but other animals could have feasted on his flesh.
An investigation is now underway.
Last September a man died after being eaten by some piranhas following a boat crash on an Amazonian river.
Joney Jose Silva da Luzon’s body was discovered on the Cuiabá River in Barão de Melgaço, Brazil.
The 38-year-old’s body was found with multiple bites when he was pulled out of the water and placed on a rescue boat.
In 2021, a young girl, 13, lost her little toe after piranhas attacked more than 30 people in an Argentinian river.
Lifeguards were ‘rushed off their feet’ treating dozens of people following the horrific incident by the Parana River in Santa Fe.
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