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A teenage girl had a toe bitten off and around 30 other people were injured after being attacked by piranhas while bathing in an Argentinian river.
The 13-year-old was rushed to hospital for an emergency skin graft op after losing her little toe in the horror incident at a popular sunbathing spot by the Parana River in Santa Fe.
Local authorities banned people from entering the water after the weekend attacks.
A teenage girl had a toe bitten off and around 30 other people were injured after being attacked by piranhas while bathing in the water at Laguna Setubal in Argentina (pictured)
Local TV footage reported by El Litoral showed one of the casualties being tended to by medics with a bandage over his big toe and blood dripping from foot wounds.
Sergio Berardi, a union representative for lifeguards in the area, blamed the piranha attacks on the high temperatures and low water levels.
Confirming a 13-year-old had lost a toe in one of the incidents, he said: 'We cannot stress enough the importance of heeding the warnings of the lifeguards, especially families with children, now we have seen the damage these
