An Indonesian boy has required lifesaving surgery after being impaled in the neck by a flying needlefish. The fish's long slender snout sliced straight through the 16-year-old's neck and pierced the back of his skull. The student was rushed to hospital for treatment, before undergoing risky surgery to remove the fish from his neck two days later. A 10-year-old Hawaiian boy died while fishing at night with his father in 1977 after he was attacked by a needlefish which pierced his eye and brain. Thai navy cadet Kriangsak Pengpanich, 22, died in December 2018 when a needlefish speared through his neck during a training exercise.

Source: Daily Mail January 22, 2020 02:16 UTC