Catfish sticks woman's stomach while swimming

A female tourist had a encounter with a catfish off the coast of Brazil.
Ambulance workers took the picture of the fish stuck to the woman's stomach as they took her to hospital to removed the object.

They cut the fish from her body,
But the serrated spine in its fin had to be taken out with microsurgery to avoid her flesh being ripped out.
Marcelo Araujo posted this on facebook

“She was in a lot of pain. We didn’t remove the spine because only a doctor can do this. We took her to hospital so she could have microsurgery.

“Generally we deal with people who have stood on fish or have cut a finger touching one, but I’ve never seen a catfish stuck to someone’s stomach. It was definitely a first, He said,,.