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Rachel Hagan

Surfer impaled by fish thought friends were pranking him before noticing huge hole in face

An Australian surfer has been left with a huge hole in his nose after a fish impaled his face while he was out at sea in Indonesia.

Steve Kezic was on a surfing expedition at Playground Surf Resort in the Mentawai Islands when the sharp beak of the garfish wedged in his nose and nearly speared out his eyes.

The man from Perth first thought one of his mates was "having a prank" and throwing seaweed at him.

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