British visitor's foot gnawed off in Australia shark attack

A man had his foot troubled off and another was truly harmed in a shark attack at Australia's upper east coast, authorities in Queensland state said.

The pair of voyagers were on a swimming visit close Airlie Beach in the Whitsunday Islands district when they were assaulted on Tuesday.

In the most recent in a string of shark assaults in the famous traveler region, a 28-year-old person's correct foot was gnawed off while the other man, 22, endured genuine slashes to his lower left leg, as per Mackay Base Hospital.

They were flown by helicopter to the medical clinic, around 950 kilometers (590 miles) north of the state capital, Brisbane, in a "genuine yet stable condition", the state salvage administration known as RACQ CQ Rescue said on Twitter.

The men told the salvage team "they were wrestling and flailing wildly in the water" in an entry among Hayman and Whitsunday Islands when they were assaulted.

"One of the patients was assaulted first and the shark was accepted to return" to assault the second, Queensland emergency vehicle administration tasks chief Tracey East wick told correspondents in Mackay.

In the previous year, there have been a few detailed shark assaults in waters around the Whitsunday Islands, which had been viewed as safe for swimming.

A lady and youngster were accepted to have been battered by a shark in January, while a man passed on of his wounds and a 12-year-old young girl lost a leg in two separate assaults on back to back days a year ago.

Over 750,000 individuals visit the Whitsunday Island district a year.

As indicated by the nation's Shark Attack File, unjustifiable shark assaults have harmed 10 individuals in Australia this year, with no recorded passing.

There were 27 shark assaults in the nation's waters in 2018, as indicated by information accumulated by Sydney's Taronga Zoo.