World IN BRIEF : SPAIN : Police Race to Catch Pregnant Scorpion
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A pregnant scorpion that escaped from a Scottish magician’s van during a bungled robbery is missing and could produce scores of poisonous offspring if it is not found soon. Police said they have identified the stretch of beach in the popular eastern Costa Brava resort of El Puig where they think the African scorpion is hiding and may have to fumigate the restricted area to kill it. A special antidote to the scorpion’s potentially deadly poison has been flown in from Africa in case anyone is stung.
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