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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Friday 21st of November 1997 (-) — Spree killer Josef Gautsch commits suicide by a shot in the head. Earlier that day Gautsch shot dead his 40-year-old wife Gabrielle Artner and their 3-year-old daughter Elizabeth, 55-year-old Wernfried Gappmayer, 39-year-old Harald Moser, 19-year-old Stefan Bader and 22-year-old Irene Schitter.