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SYDNEY - A SHARK bit an Australian fisherman's leg so tightly on Sunday that fellow fishermen had to cut its head off to free the man.
The shark had just been hauled onto a tuna boat which was fishing 130 nautical miles off Australia's north-east coast, when a fisherman stepped on its tail and it bit him.
'He was fishing with a reel off a boat and caught a mako shark,' said Mr Brian Russell from RACQ CareFlight rescue service.
'The shark was three metres in length and 90kgs in weight. They brought it on deck and the man stepped on its tail. The shark whipped around and latched onto his right calf,' Mr Russell said.
'They couldn't release the shark's jaw, so they had to cut off its head to release the jaws,' he said.
The man, who suffered a bite to the bone of his leg, was airlifted to a hospital and is in stable condition. -- REUTERS
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