Rescuers have relived the horrific moment they realised they would have to amputate a man’s leg to save his life while he was trapped in rapids in a remote part of Australia.
Lithuanian Valdas Bieliauskas was on a whitewater rafting trip on the powerful Franklin River, when he slipped while hopping from one boulder to another, falling chest-deep into the icy cold water and jamming his leg in a narrow gap between the boulders.
