Surfer’s leg taken to hospital in hopes of reattaching it after Port Macquarie shark attack

Kai McKenzie’s severed leg washed up on North Shore beach a short time after the attack and was retrieved by locals who put it on ice, NSW police said. Photograph: NSW police

The severed leg of a surfer has been retrieved after it washed up on a beach after a shark attack off the mid-north coast of New South Wales.

Kai McKenzie, 23, was surfing at North Shore beach near Port Macquarie on Tuesday morning when a suspected three-metre great white shark bit him.