Yahoo! News - Woman uses fists, feet to save teenage nephew from crocodile in Australia: "DARWIN, Australia (AP) - A woman punched and kicked a three-metre saltwater crocodile on the nose to free her teenage nephew from its jaws during an attack in Australia's outback, the young man said Monday from his hospital bed.
Manual Gandigorrtij, 19, was loading wild geese into his small tin boat at the water's edge when a crocodile lunged at his leg and pulled him into the creek, 400 kilometres east of Darwin on Saturday. Without hesitation, his aunt and uncle raced to his rescue.
'He dragged me into the water and then my uncle and my aunty went and jumped it,' Gandigorrtij told the Australian Associated Press from the hospital.
His aunt, Margaret Rinybuma, 53, let her fists and feet fly.
'She punched it, the croc, and she kicked it,' Gandigorrtij said.
'I hit him with my fist on the nose and I yelled out 'Help! In the name of Jesus!' and it let him go,' Rinybuma told the Northern Territory News in a story printed Monday.
After the crocodile let go, his aunt and uncle dragged the teen from the water.
Gandigorrtij was recovering in Royal Darwin Hospital following surgery for three deep cuts in his left leg. "
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