Surfer injured in Oz shark attack

Sydney: A 41-year-old surfer was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after being bitten in a suspected shark attack on Australia’s famed Byron Bay. The man was out catching waves shortly after dawn at Belongil Beach when police said he was “bitten on the leg by a shark”. Images taken shortly after appeared to show a chunk bitten out of the tail of the man’s surfboard. “I was freaking. When I heard the screams he was making in the water and then I saw a chunk of his board floating off, that’s when I realised it was pretty bad,” a fellow surfer told national broadcaster ABC. The victim managed to float back to shore on his board.