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2 dead after swarms of venomous spiders invade town
SADIYA, India – A town in India has suddenly been overrun by swarms of venomous spiders, leaving two people dead after being bitten.It may sound like a B-grade horror movie, but residents of the town of Sadiya, in Assam state, say that on the evening of May 8 as they were celebrating a Hindu festival swarms of spiders suddenly appeared and attacked them, The Times of India reported.Over the next few days two people -- a man, Purnakanta Buragohain, and an unnamed school boy -- died after being bitten by the spiders. Scores more turned up at the town's hospital with spider bites.Local resident Jintu Gogoi spent a day in the hospital complaining of excruciating pain and nausea after being bitten. He said weeks later his finger was still blackened and swollen.District authorities are also panicking -- and they are considering spraying the town with the insecticide DDT.Locals say the most terrifying aspect is that spiders appear in swarms and their behavior is highly aggressive."It leaps at anything that comes close. Some of the victims claimed the spider latched on to them after biting. If that is so, it needs to be dealt with carefully. The chelicerae and fangs of this critter are quite powerful," head of the department of life sciences at Dibrugarh University Dr. L.R. Saikia said.
Teams of Indian arachnid experts have flocked to the town, hoping to identify the species, but so far they have drawn a blank.They say it could be a tarantula, a black wishbone or even a funnel-web spider -- or it could be a whole new species.One thing they agree on is that it is not native to the area as there is no record of venomous spiders in Assam. The black wishbone and funnel-web are native to Australia.
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Yup. It's the end of the world.
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Obviously Iran working with Pakistan
India should be napalmed, for their own good.
And ours too.
No. Australia working against the world. It has begun.Originally Posted by RangerChallenge
Called it first.
Those are some really ****ty experts. I'm not massively knowledgeable about spiders, but a tarantula and a funnel-web look pretty bloody different.Teams of Indian arachnid experts have flocked to the town, hoping to identify the species, but so far they have drawn a blank.They say it could be a tarantula, a black wishbone or even a funnel-web spider -- or it could be a whole new species.
Rest in peace victims. Hope the species and source is identified soon.
Double post, coz I'm a tool.
x2 considering all three mentioned are in different families.
Do they not have samples or anything?
I think they're making the whole thing up.
I thought the acknowledged masters of animal warfare were Israel with their man-eating Mossad shark in Egypt and the spying Bee-Eater in Turkey? A close second is my very own Britain with our man-eating badgers in Iraq.
And our listening rocks in Russia?
Clever marketing for a new Bollywood movie?
I had to google the black wishbone. It is actually an Australian Spider. They live in drier areas and are not considered poisonous.
Except the rock was a real thing, not something made up by a hysterical media. And rocks aren't animals.
Rocks however aren't particularly aggressive. Mostly.
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