Two-Year-Old Dies in Piranha Attack After River Fall in Brazil

A two-year-old girl died after falling into a river and being attacked by piranhas near the city of Coari in Brazil's Amazonas state on Monday. Clara Vitoria lived with her parents in a floating structure along the riverbank, where she wandered outside during a brief moment of parental inattention and fell through an opening in the home.

The girl slipped into the water through a section of the structure that lacked fencing or guardrails, an area reserved for future construction of a bathroom. Her parents noticed her absence shortly after and entered the river to search. They located her body approximately five minutes later. She was pulled from the water but showed no signs of life and was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities reported that most of her injuries were concentrated on her neck and resulted from the piranha bites.

Local officials transported Clara's body to the Legal Medical Institute in Coari for forensic examination. The incident was formally registered with police, though no further details on the investigation have been released. The family's home, typical of many riverside dwellings in the Amazon region, floats on the water to adapt to seasonal flooding but...