Liuzhou's municipal authorities in Guangxi on Wednesday placed a heavy bounty on piranhas recovered from its waters, and would offer 1,000 yuan for every piranha caught, China News Service reported.

The move followed a piranha attack last weekend in which a man surnamed Zhang suffered injuries to the palms of his hands while giving his dog a bath in the Liujiang River.

Following the incident, local citizens interested in catching or seeing the banned foreign carnivorous species, placed bait in the river.

(China.org.cn July 12, 2012)

據中新社報道，周三，廣西柳州市官方懸賞釣剿所轄水域中的食人魚，每條獎勵1000元。

此舉的緣由是上周末市民張先生在柳江河邊給小狗洗澡時，遭到食人魚攻擊，手掌被咬傷。

事件發生后，有興趣的市民便在江中投放誘餌，希望捕獲或見識這種被禁止進口的外來食肉物種。