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Australian man manages to fight off giant crocodile

Xinhua, May 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

A kite surfer who fought off a crocodile as it attacked him several times off a Darwin beach in Australia said he would go back into the water.

Chris Keeping was 100 meters off shore when he was attacked by the 2.5-meter saltwater crocodile over the weekend.

"I'd been cruising around for at least two hours ... I went down in a bad spot, a hundred meters from the beach and the wind dropped off. My kite folded onto itself," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Tuesday."

"I didn't see him until the last minute, and then just a massive bang, he smashed me like a Mack truck. And next minute I'm just getting shaken violently left to right.

"Sheer panic, I went like a ragdoll, I didn't know what to do."

The crocodile bit him on the shoulder and continued to circle him and make more attacks.

But Keeping eventually managed to stab the beast in the eye which made it go away. Endi