mutant fish has started killing people after feeding on human corpses

A FEARSOME mutant fish has started killing people after feeding on human corpses, scientists fear.


They
reckon that a huge type of catfish, called a goonch, may have developed
a taste for flesh in an Indian river where bodies are dumped after
funerals.
Locals have believed for years that a
mysterious monster lurks in the water. But they think it has moved on
from scavenging to snatching unwary bathers who venture into the Great
Kali, which flows along the India-Nepal border.
The extraordinary creature has been investigated by biologist Jeremy Wade for a TV documentary to be shown on Five.
He
said: The locals have told me of a theory that this monster has grown
extra large on a diet of partially burnt corpses. It has perhaps got
this taste for flesh by feasting on remains of funeral pyres. There
will be a few freak individuals that grow bigger than the other ones
and if you throw in extra food, they will grow even bigger.
Jeremy
discounted theories that crocodiles could be responsible for the
carnage before turning his attention to goonches among the worlds
biggest freshwater fish.