Pictures of the monstrous aquatic creature that causes panic in China: "Turtle body, snake head"

The surprise and panic generated on February 9 in the south of China by the appearance of a strange fish.

A witness told the local press the moment he saw the animal for the first time. At first he thought it was a turtle, since a big back came out of the water; but then he pulled out his head, and it looked like a snake.

The fish was seen in the Baiyun Lake, in Guangzhou City.

One of the rangers saw the animal and photographed it. Subsequently revealed to the newspaper Guangzhou Daily What the fish was two meters long and looked "strange".

"We had already understood the existence of this strange fish before, but we had very little shown his body out of the water, so we could not identify it," he said. he declared. Song Yunchang, responsible for the park security team.

"The back part looked like a turtle and she was black, then she showed her head and she looks like a snake head", he added.

After identifying the animal, the authorities warned visitors to the park Do not swim in the lake.

They also recognized that some people panicked when they saw the fish. The local media described him as a "ferocious" animal and claimed that he was "a murderer in the water".

For its part, a team has been formed to investigate the issue and catch the fish that, according to local experts, they come from North America and Central America. Nobody explained how they could have reached this region of the Asian country.