British teenager bitten by venomous spider in Ibiza needs to have two fingers amputated

dailyrecord.co.uk:

teenager will need at least two fingers amputated after being bit by a spider while on holiday in Ibiza. The 19-year-old is awaiting surgery after returning home to Wales.

He spent the last two weeks in Spain undergoing medical tests to determine why his right hand was swelling, the Mirror reports.

The holidaymaker's nightmare was published in local papers today (August 9). The teen was bitten while watching the sunset in what is understood to be San Antontio, he told the paper : "I sat on some steps and felt something and stung me but I didn’t think anything of it. “I woke up at 5am the following morning because my hand was burning and was swelling up.”He went to a local health centre where he was given an injection, but when that didn't.