(ANSA) - SYDNEY, 07 AUG - He saved his friend from the bite of a crocodile and now they are both in hospital in Cairns, a remote city in Queensland, the gateway to the Great Australian coral barrier, injured but alive.
The two, both military, were swimming off the Cape York Peninsula in Northeast Australia.
when one of them was attacked by a saltwater crocodile about two and a half meters long, the Queensland Ambulance Service reported.
The attacked man sustained severe injuries to his head, chest and arms, while his rescuer presented tears in his arms. An army doctor who was passing by on a barge near the accident site rescued them and applied a tourniquet to them, preventing them from bleeding before reaching the hospital, a transport that involved a long journey of almost 800 kilometers, by rubber boat, helicopter and airplane.
Although both men are now in stable conditions, there is fear for the life of the youngest, who was attacked by the animal and sustained very serious injuries. (HANDLE).