Stingray lashes out

A tourist has been left with an ugly gash in his lower leg after an apparent encounter with a stingray. The Italian man was at Mt Maunganui yesterday bodysurfing, according to SunLive. Witnesses say he stood on a stingray and suffered a deep laceration just above the ankle. Local surfer Colin McGonagle helped the injured man to the beach. ‘‘He was in shock and kept saying how painful the laceration was,’’ McGonagle said. The man was taken to Tauranga Hospital.