A six-year-old boy lost three-quarters of his thigh in a bloody shark attack at a Florida beach on Tuesday.
Nickolaus Bieber, from Palm Beach Gardens, was swimming near the Juno Beach Pier in Jupiter at about 7pm when he saw the shark 'thrashing in the water'.
The creature then surged at him, gnawing a chunk out of his leg.
'He was bleeding so much that we couldn't tell which part of the body was bit,' an onlooker told WPTV.
Nickolaus' mother, Christina Bieber, said she initially thought her son had been stung by a Portuguese man-of-war when he turned to her and said 'something bit me'.
'I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was bad,' she told The Palm Beach Post.
She said she wrapped a towel around her son's leg where a 'good chunk' was torn off and passers by called 911.
In audio of the emergency call released on Wednesday, the caller describes the bite as a 'pretty big gash' and adds that the boy was 'bleeding pretty bad'.
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