A surfer has been rushed to hospital after a suspected shark attack on NSW’s Mid North Coast.
The 39-year-old was reportedly bitten by an “animal” while in the water at Point Plomer Beach, south of Crescent Head, earlier on Tuesday.
He reportedly drove himself to Kempsey District Hospital where he remains in a stable condition.
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National Parks and Wildlife Services have closed all beaches from Queens Head to Big Hill in response to the incident.
It comes after three separate incidents across Sydney in the two days prior.
One man, believed to be in his 20s, was critically injured after being attacked by a shark at North Steyne Beach in Manly about 6.20pm on Monday.
Surf camera footage shows a group of people helping drag him to shore, with police saying first aid was administered before emergency crews arrived.
Paramedics treated the man at the scene for lacerations to his leg before rushing him to Royal North Shore Hospital in a critical condition.
A young boy was also attacked while surfing earlier that day at Dee Why Beach but miraculously escaped injury.
The day prior, a 12-year-old identified as Nico Antic suffered critical injuries to his legs while swimming with friends at a popular jump rock near Shark Beach in Vaucluse.
NSW Police Superintendent Joseph McNulty said his legs were bitten by what is believed to be a bull shark, however the species has not been confirmed.
One of the victim’s friends jumped into the water and pulled him out while another helped both back onto the rock.
Officers onboard a police boat attended first and applied two tourniquets, one to each leg, to stem the bleeding.
The boy was unconscious at the time and had lost a lot of blood, McNulty said.
Eastern suburbs police responded and helped put the boy onto a boat, where CPR was performed as it sailed off at high-speed to Rose Bay Wharf.
The boy was rushed into an ambulance where he was given a blood transfusion and taken to The Sydney Children’s Hospital at Randwick.
NSW Ambulance inspector Giles Buchanan said by the time paramedics began treating the boy it was a resuscitation effort and that it was “touch and go” the whole way to the hospital.
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