A female tourist, off the coast of Brazil had a painful encounter with a catfish.
Ambulance workers took the photo of the catfish stuck to the woman’s stomach as they rushed her to hospital so the object could be removed.
They cut the fish from her body at the scene, but the serrated spine in its fin had to be taken out with microsurgery to avoid her flesh being ripped out.
Marcelo Araujo, who posed the photo on his Facebook page, joked: “A rare occurrence. A swimmer is hit by a fish.”
He added: “We were alerted to an incident where an object had penetrated a swimmer’s stomach and when we got there, we discovered it was a fish.
She was in a lot of pain. Generally we deal with people who have stood on fish or have cut a finger touching one, but I’ve never seen a catfish stuck to someone’s stomach. It was definitely a first.”
Last September, a video went viral of a sunbather getting stabbed in the leg with a catfish during a muck-around with a friend on a beach.
One of the bikini-clad women chased the other around with the dead fish before the prank backfired and attached itself to her. The injured woman was concerned she would get a disease.
Source:www.mirror.co.uk
