Officials said the riverboat Sobral Santos II was overloaded with up to 500 passengers and hundreds of tons of cargo. The accident occurred more than 700 miles up the Amazon which contains flesh-eating piranha fish, gigantic catfish and electric eels. (19 September 1981)
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Monday 1st of August 1983 (-) — Actor Peter Arne is beaten to death. Several days later the body of presumed murderer and tramp Giuseppe Perusi was found drowned in the Thames. Inquiries revealed Arne had been giving food to the Italian schoolteacher who had been living rough in a local park.