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)

据中新社报道，周三，广西柳州市官方悬赏钓剿所辖水域中的食人鱼，每条奖励1000元。

此举的缘由是上周末市民张先生在柳江河边给小狗洗澡时，遭到食人鱼攻击，手掌被咬伤。

事件发生后，有兴趣的市民便在江中投放诱饵，希望捕获或见识这种被禁止进口的外来食肉物种。