Stingray barb through man’s foot

Paramedics treat man for stingray attack that occured near the boat ramp at Seventeen Seventy.

A stingray swims in its enclosure at the Sydney Aquarium Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006. Australian international media personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin also known as the Crocodile Hunter was killed by a stingray barb to the heart while filming a television series on the Great Barrier Reef on Monday, Sept. 4. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

UPDATE 12:50pm: PARAMEDICS have treated a man in his 30s, who had a stingray barb through is foot while offshore in a boat, off The town of Seventeen Seventy.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the man was being transported by ambulance to Bundaberg Hospital in a stable condition.

 

INITIAL REPORT: A man is making his way to shore in a boat off Seventeen Seventy with a stingray barb through his foot.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said paramedics were called from a boat at 12.06pm about a man, believed to be aged 31, who was stung by a stingray offshore.

The spokeswoman said the man was in a boat off Seventeen Seventy, when he has been stung by a stingray and has the barb from its tail lodged in his foot.

Paramedics are en route by road ambulance to the boat ramp at Seventeen Seventy to meet the boat.

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