A shoal of biting fish in Argentina has injured more than 70 people as they swam at a popular beach in the Parana River near Rosario, 300 kilometres north of Buenos Aires.

A seven-year-old girl had her finger partially amputated.

The head of the local emergency service said isolated injuries were common from the fish – a relative of the piranha – but a mass attack on this scale was exceptional.

Yesterday, seventy people were injured by carnivorous fish while bathing in the aptly named Parana River in Rosario, Argentina. The fish were likely Pygocentrus palometa, a kind of piranha. (BBC News, thanks Bob Pescovitz!) David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco. MORE:  fish More at Boing Boing Read more [...]

Bangalore: Brushing aside intense criticism over its planned foreign trip, a Karnataka Legislature committee on Thursday insisted it will go ahead with its tour of three South American countries, even as another group of MLAs is currently touring Australia. As the controversy snowballed over the visit of 18 MLAs of the Estimates Committee to Brazil, Argentina and Peru, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also defended their tour planned for January, saying it was not as Read more [...]