Boy, ten, undergoes surgery after being bitten by a shark off WA
A 10-year-old boy has undergone surgery after being bitten by a shark off the coast of Western Australia.
Jackson was snorkelling with his dad at Five Finger Reef, near Coral Bay on Friday when a shadow began to follow him in the water.
“He looked behind and saw it was a shark,” his mother told 9News.
“It went to bite him … it missed the first time then bit one flipper off the second time … and third time it bit his flipper and foot and then it swam off.”
His dad raised the alarm and rushed his son back to shore.
It was a two-metre bronze whaler that left two gashes on the boy’s foot.