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Teen Commits 'Suicide by Piranha'

Bolivian leaps into river swarming with flesh-eating fish

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 8, 2011 12:40 AM CST

(Newser) – An 18-year-old Bolivian picked a bizarre and gruesome way to commit suicide, police say.

The intoxicated teen jumped out of his canoe into a stretch of river infested with piranhas and bled to death after suffering dozens of bites, the Sun reports.

Police believe the death was suicide because the teen was a fisherman who knew the river well and was aware that it was swarming with the flesh-eating fish at this time of year.

Earlier this year, piranhas attacked 100 beachgoers in Brazil.

Sounds like a lot of pain.