Paddy Trumbull, a 60-year-old Australian grandmother has survived a shark attack by repeatedly punching and kicking the animal after it “ripped off” part of her body in Australia.

She suffered deep bite wounds and lost a huge amount of blood in the incident while snorkelling near the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland. She is really lucky to be alive after such attack.

Speaking from her hospital bed to local media, she said that while snorkelling from a chartered boat with her husband and others, she felt “the most almighty huge tug” and “knew immediately what it was”.

Mrs Trumbull said: “I turned around and I saw this huge shark.” She added, “I then thought ‘this shark’s not going to get the better of me’ and I started punching it on the nose, punching, punching, punching. And then it got me under the water, but not much because I started kicking at its neck.”

She was pulled on board the boat and given first aid, before being airlifted to Mackay Base Hospital where she underwent surgery.

Surgeon Mark Flanagan said: “We can estimate that she lost about 40 per cent of her blood volume from the degree of shock that she had when she came in, and the fact that we required to give her several units of blood.”

She is really lucky to be alive and this is indeed one of the greatest news of courage and survival.