Heroic friends pulled their 12-year-old mate out of the water after he was bitten by a shark in Sydney Harbour, but the boy is still “fighting for his life” in hospital, Australian authorities said.
“It was a horrendous scene at the time when police attended,” Superintendent Joseph McNulty, Commander of the New South Wales Police Marine Area Command, said at a press conference Monday.
“We believe it was something like a bull shark that attacked the lower limbs of that boy yesterday.”
He praised the boy’s friends for pulling him from the water onto a rock face, calling their actions “nothing but brave.”
It was “very confronting injuries for…