A marlin, the giant fish with a spear-like snout, killed a fisherman in the Bay of Bengal, off Visakhapatnam coast in a very unfortunate incident on wednesday.

The victim was identified as 40-year-old Molli Joganna, from Visakhapatnam district. He went for fishing in the deep sea, 60 nautical miles away from the shore under Parawada police station limits on the south of Visakhapatnam. There were four other fishermen with him when the tragedy took place.

The fishermen went into the deep sea for catching fish on Tuesday at 4 pm and continued fishing till Wednesday morning.

During 7 am on Wednesday, they found that a marlin (also known as Kommu Konam), that weighs nearly 70 kgs was caught in their net. Joganna jumped to the sea as they were unable to pull the fish into boat. He was then attacked by marlin with its upper snout. As it attacked on his stomach, he died on spot.

Joganna was a resident of Jalaripeta, a coastal hamlet in Mutyalammapalem panchayat in Parawada mandal.

Arjili Das, leader of Visakhapatnam Fishermen Youth Welfare Association said none from their fishing community died of fish attacks so far in the known history.