Stuck 20 hours, kayaking tourist's leg amputated during rescue in Australia

Flavius Niculescu

Nov. 23 (UPI) -- In a scene mirroring a Hollywood movie, a kayaker was rescued after a 20-hour ordeal on a river in Southern Australia that saw the man's leg amputated, police confirmed afterwards. The 60-year-old tourist got his leg wedged between rocks while kayaking through rapids on the Franklin River in the Australian state of Tasmania, leading to an all-out rescue effort, Tasmania Police said in a statement on Facebook . Advertisement After being freed from the 80-mile, major perennial

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