Mutant fish killing people in river
October 10, 2008
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A MUTANT fish has started killing people after feeding on human corpses dumped in a river, scientists believe.
The catfish, called a goonch, may have developed a taste for human flesh in an Indian river where bodies are dumped after funerals, The Sun reported.
Locals believe the fish has moved on from scavenging to snatching bathers who swim in the Great Kali, located along the India-Nepal border.
Biologist Jeremy Wade is investigating the creature.
“The locals have told me of a theory that this monster has grown extra large on a diet of partially burnt corpses. It has perhaps got this taste for flesh by feasting on remains of funeral pyres,” he said.
“There will be a few freak individuals that grow bigger than the other ones and if you throw in extra food, they will grow even bigger.”
Mr Wade said he caught one which tipped the scales at 73kg and was nearly 6ft long.
“If that got hold of you, there’d be no getting away,” he said.
An 18-year-old Nepali disappeared in the river last year, dragged down by something described as like an “elongated pig”.
But the first victim of a goonch attack was thought to have been a 17-year-old Nepalese boy.
He was killed in April 1988 as he cooled himself in the river.
Witnesses said he was suddenly pulled below the surface.
Three months later a young boy was dragged underwater as his father watched helplessly.
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Nah, it’s just my ex-wife. She never came back from a holiday in India and now I know where she got to.
Andrew Goulding
lol
We need a way of compiling all your ex wife jokes
But I wasn’t joking!
Andrew Goulding