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SA lifeguard loses foot in shark attach
A South African lifeguard had his foot bitten ?clean off? when a shark attacked him during a training exercise off a beach near Cape Town, officials said.
Achmat Hassiem, 24, and his brother and fellow lifeguard Taariq, 17, were in the water off False Bay when Achmat spotted a shark and yelled to his brother to get into a nearby boat. ?I got in the boat. The shark turned and went straight for my brother,? Taariq told the SAPA news agency. ?I stuck my hand in the water to see if I could hold him. He grabbed on to my hand. We grabbed him out as fast as possible... His foot was cut clean off.?
Achmat was airlifted to a local hospital, having suffered a ?complete amputation of his right foot,? the National Sea Rescue Institute said. He was in satisfactory condition yesterday.
The young men?s father Moegsien Hassiem said Achmat had told him he believed the shark was a great white, which are common in the waters around Cape Town. ?He saw it. He was face to face with it at the bottom (of the sea),? Hassiem said.
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