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Beware the killer pond life

EXPERTS fear Britain could be facing a deadly invasion of killer piranha after a Kent angler hooked one of the Amazonian fang-fish in a Folkestone pond.

According to the Sun, 46-year-old Derek Plum narrowly avoided having his arm taken off by a 1lb 4oz piscine death machine in the town’s Radnor Park.

A shaken Plum recounted: “I felt an almighty tug on my rod* - next thing I knew it had dragged my line about 500 yards. It was going all over the place. It took me about 15 minutes to reel it in. When it emerged it was thrashing around and was going crazy.

“The other fishermen were yelling, ‘You’ve caught a piranha’. I couldn’t believe it. Luckily, the fishing hook had fallen out of its mouth otherwise I would had somehow had to remove it myself.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .