Two-year-old Clara Vitoria wandered away from her parents and fell into the river outside her home but was declared dead a ...

A two-year-old girl died in a piranha attack after wandering outside her riverside home in rural Brazil. Little Clara Vitoria died shortly after she was attacked near the city of Coari, Brazil, on ...

Nine-year-old girl Yasmin Vieira was bitten by flesh-eating piranhas in Brazil on June 8, according to local reports The attack allegedly occurred shortly after the victim placed her legs in the water ...

A two-year-old girl has been killed in a horrific piranha attack after she fell into a river in Brazil. Clara Vitoria had been wandering outside her riverside home, which had no fence to prevent her ...

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Footage showed families and children rushing out of the water after being bitten by the fish on Sunday, Oct. 26 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

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A toddler has been killed in a horrific piranha attack after falling into a river outside her home.

When we think of piranhas, we often conjure up an image of fearsome predators that can strip an animal to its skeleton in seconds. Their bad reputation stems, in part, from President Theodore ...

Yasmin Vieira, 9, was sitting on a deck with her legs in the water when she was attacked at Lago Sul in Brazil on Sunday, June 8 Nine-year-old girl Yasmin Vieira was bitten by flesh-eating piranhas in ...