Fish! Chinese city's streets filled with hundreds of catfish after accident
What happens when a truck transporting 6800 kgs of catfish meets with an accident? You get a street filled with slimy, writhing catfish. Here's what happened in the city of Kaili in China.
People pick up catfish which have fallen from a truck on a street in Kaili, Guizhou province on 18 March. The door of a truck carrying 6800 kgs (14,991 lbs) of catfish was opened by accident as it travelled along a street in Kaili on Wednesday.. REUTERS
A man watches hundreds of catfish in the street in Kaili, Guizhou province. With the help of local firefighters and residents, most of the fish were cleared up in about two hours, local media reported. REUTERS
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