An angler who escaped from a swarm of bees by jumping into a lake was eaten by piranhas.
The 30-year-old man was on a day out fishing with two friends in the municipality of Brasilandia de Minas, in southern Brazil. When the swarm of bees attacked, all three rushed into the water. Two made it back to the shore when they realised the lake was swarming with piranhas.
Firemen later found the dead man’s body four metres from the shore. They said that the fish had “torn open several parts of the body and the right side of the face”. An initial investigation suggested that he drowned rather than died from wounds inflicted by the fish.
About 30 species of piranha live in the Amazon