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Over 70 injured in attack of carnivorous fish in Argentina

About 70 people , including seven children, were injured in an attack on a bench brackets , carnivorous fish of the Piranhas , while bathing in the Parana River in Argentina Rosario, officials said . "We had to serve about 70 patients , most with minor injuries ," he said in a radio interview the director of Health Emergency Rosario , Federico Cornier . Among the most seriously injured a girl of seven, who lost a phalanx of the index finger, and another adult swimmer , suffered amputation of a toe, Cornier is detailed . The attack came on the day of Christmas in the traditional rosarinas beaches Rambla Catalunya , which had approached about 9,000 people to combat the heat wave hitting the center of Argentina , with temperatures above 38 degrees. Other swimmers had to be treated by open fractures in feet, ankles and hands, detailed sources Integrated Emergency System ( SIES ) of the city, located about 300 kilometers west of Buenos Aires. " The halibut is a common species at this time of year, but elsewhere in the river," reassured the population Undersecretary of Natural Resources of the Province of Santa Fe, Ricardo Biasatti . " Attacks of this magnitude there is no history , but checking back to have been sporadic cases every year ," said Biasatti told local television The Ocho . The brackets are carnivorous fish with sharp teeth and aggressive , often acting in groups and appear sporadically on the shores of the Paraná , especially at high temperatures.

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