I watched in amazement an ABC News report as Christmas day beach goers returned to the water in soaring heat over 100 degrees to play and swim shortly after piranhas had a feeding frenzy and attacked dozens of swimmers right off the shores of Argentina’s second largest city in Rosano.
The piranhas chomped into men wading in the water; bite off one girl’s fingers and eating into the ankle of a boy. The piranhas were in a total feeding frenzy and ready to attack anything or anyone in sight.
A piranha’s bite pound for pound is more powerful than that of a great white shark; and it’s said that it is three times stronger than a gator’s bite. And they can smell blood from up to two miles away according to the ABC News report.
The piranhas surrounded the beach goers before they knew what was happening. They are known to devour everything, even the bone when they’re in a feeding frenzy. Officials said it was one of the worse attacks in memory.
The heat wave is being blamed for drawing the piranhas ashore leading to the nightmarish incident that took place at the shores of Argentina.
In my opinion I would not think about returning to the water where people had been attacked but there may have been a logical reason for the bathers to return to the water that others are not aware of. I know this beach goer would have left the beach and may not ever return to swim in the ocean again.
Barbara Kasey Smith is the writer of this article and it is based on an ABC News report.
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ABC News