BRIT EATEN BY SHARK! Great White chomps off tourist’s foot

A BRITISH backpacker had his foot bitten off by a shark as he was attacked while snorkelling.

Alistair Raddon, 28, of Southampton, was attacked along with Danny Maggs, 22, of Plymouth – who was left with severe lacerations to his leg.

Both were airlifted to hospital in Queensland, Australia, where they are undergoing treatment.

The men were on a day cruise when the attack happened at Hook Passage, eight miles from the site of another fatal shark attack in the Whitsunday Islands last November.

IN GOOD SPIRITS: Alistair Raddon board as guests.

The two tourists were “wrestling in the water” when they were attacked by what witnesses say could well have been a Great White shark.

QAS manager Tracey Eastwick said the shark attacked one man first, then returned and hit the other, adding: “The international paramedics applied tourniquets to both patients and continued treatment on board until they reached Abell Point Marina, where they met two of our frontline crews.”

She added that the pair were in “good spirits” and discussing the rugby World Cup during the journey to hospital.

The cruise firm, ZigZag Whitsundays, has since suspended its tours in the area.

There have been three fatal shark attacks off the coast of Queensland since 2006 and many shark attacks in the Whitsunday Islands in recent years.

A woman and child were mauled by a shark in January, while a man died of his injuries and a 12-year-old girl lost a leg in two separate attacks last year.