A two-year-old girl has been killed in a horrific piranha attack after she fell into a river in Brazil.
Clara Vitoria had been wandering outside her riverside home, which had no fence to prevent her from falling into the water, when the tragedy occurred.
She died shortly after the attack, near the city of Coari, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, on Monday.
Clara reportedly fell into the river through a hole in a floating structure where she lived with her family.
Her parents only realised something was wrong after noticing she had disappeared.
They entered the river to search for her and found her around five minutes later. She was rescued from the water but no longer showed signs of life.
Most of her injuries were to her neck and were caused by the piranha attack.
The area where she fell had no fencing or guardrails because it had been set aside for the future construction of a bathroom.
Clara Vitoria had been wandering outside her riverside home, which had no fence to prevent her from falling into the water, when the tragedy occurred.
Clara reportedly fell into the river through a hole in a floating structure where she lived with her family
Her body was taken to the Legal Medical Institute for forensic procedures and the case was registered with police.
It comes after at least eight people were injured in a piranha attack in Brazil in 2023 -with the victims suffering bloody wounds, according to local media.
The fish were said to have torn in to their legs at a beach resort in Taruma-Acu, a region that lies to the north of Manaus – a city that sits on the Amazon River.
Shocked victims were understood to have been playing in a stream during the Labour Day holiday when they suddenly felt sharp pains on their feet and legs.
One victim said they only realised what they had been attacked by upon getting out of the water and finding others nursing their wounds.
Images taken at the scene show how several people had to have their bloodied feet bandaged up after receiving nasty bites from the vicious fish.
‘I felt a ‘shock’ on my heel, I even thought it was the poraque [a fish that emits electrical charges],’ University student Adaiany Monteiro told G1 news.
But ‘when I left, I saw that some people were talking about piranhas and bites. I noticed my foot and saw the bite mark’, she told the Brazilian news outlet.
