A man has been left fighting for his life after he lost his leg during a horrific shark attack at Falcon Beach in Mandurah on Tuesday afternoon.
The man, who is believed to be a fly-in, fly-out worker for FMG, was surfing at the West Australian beach at about 4pm with friends when the attack occurred.
“It’s very desperate scenes down here at the moment,” Nathan Hondros, deputy editor of the Mandurah Mail, told Radio 6PR.
“We’ve got the bloke out of the water, he seems to have lost a leg from above the knee and it looks like ambulance crews are trying to revive him… it’s not looking good.”
But according to witnesses the man, believed to be 29, was soon assessed by paramedics who dismissed the RAC rescue chopper which landed at the scene and transported the patient to Peel Health Campus by ambulance.
Jodie Hough, a Halls Head local, said the man was still conscious when he was brought up the stairs from the beach, reports Perth Now.
Falcon Bay beach has been closed one kilometre in each direction by City of Mandurah rangers and there is no word yet on what kind of shark was responsible for the attack.
