An extraordinary episode took place in the recreation area of the Dutch town of Emmen. Two sisters were attacked by a giant pike living in a local pond, the Dutch newspaper Telegraaf writes
The first victim of the aggressive fish was 10-year-old Jolene, who ran out of the water in tears with a bloody leg. The girl's wounds have large, stuck fish teeth. The girl's father, who is an experienced sports angler, identified them as the teeth of a huge pike. Later, the fish attacked the older sister of the first victim, grabbing the hand of 13-year-old Britt and pretty much bit her. The doctors had to put six stitches on the girl's arm.
Now the surrounding residents are afraid to swim in the reservoir, the newspaper notes. The pike was nicknamed "the monster of the pond", and most of the men living in the nearby area are trying to fish out a giant fish, but so far unsuccessfully, RIA Novosti reports.
Prior to this, such cases were not recorded, and the first place in the number of attacks on swimmers unconditionally belongs to sharks. Several people have fallen prey to the planet's oldest predator in recent months. The latest episode took place on the Mexican coast near the resort town of Ipata, when a 24-year-old resident of the city of San Francisco received a massive laceration in his thigh and was taken by his comrade to the hospital, where he subsequently died of blood loss.
On April 8, six hundred kilometers from Sydney, two teenagers were attacked by sharks less than fifty meters from the shore. One of them later died from bites. According to Australian oceanographers, on average, there are at least fifteen cases of shark attacks on humans per year near Australian shores.