NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
A seven-year-old boy died after being stung by a one of the most poisonous scorpions in the world.
Luiz Miguel Furtado Barbosa, from Anhembi, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, was getting dressed to go camping with his family when he suddenly ‘screamed in pain’.
A Brazilian yellow scorpion – or Tityus serrulatus – was later discovered in his shoe.
His mother Angelita Proenca Furtado told local media: ‘As soon as he put it on, he screamed in pain. As we didn’t find what had stung him, we kept looking.