A six-year-old girl died from a vicious piranha attack last Tuesday after the canoe she was in with her family while on vacation flipped over in Brazil, according to local Portuguese reports translated by The Independent.
Adrila Muniz was in the canoe with her mother, grandparents and four other children when a thunderstorm struck and the canoe capsized, throwing the children overboard in a body of water in Monte Alegre, the Ariquemes Agora newspaper reported.
The adults hastened to rescue the children, but by the time they got to the girl, the flesh from her legs was already devoured by piranhas with razor-sharp teeth. Local outlets published horrific images showing the child's legs completely stripped to the bone.
She was pulled from the water back into the canoe and transported to a hospital. She did not survive the attack.
The incident comes three years after a 5-year-old Brazilian girl was also attacked by piranhas, which are native to the waters of the Amazon rainforest.
