The Kali River goonch attacks were a series of fatal attacks on human

Human

Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

s believed to be perpetrated by man-eating

Man-eater

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 goonch catfish

Bagarius

Bagarius is a genus of catfishes of the family Sisoridae. It includes four extant species, B. bagarius, B. rutilus, B. suchus, and B. yarelli , and one extinct species, B. gigas.-Distribution:Bagarius species inhabit south and southeast Asia...

 in three villages on the banks of the Kali River in India

India

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 and Nepal

Nepal

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, between 1998 and 2007. This is the subject of a TV documentary aired on 22 October 2008, as well as an episode about the Kali River goonch attacks on the Animal Planet

Animal Planet

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 series River Monsters

River Monsters

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The first attack occurred in April 1998, when at 13:00, 17-year-old Dil Bahada, while swimming in the river, was dragged underwater in front of his girlfriend and several eyewitnesses.