Ambulance service uncertain of the species that bit the man but says symptoms point to a brown snake
, after helping to remove a snake which had coiled around his friend’s leg.
Claire Bertenshaw, the Queensland Ambulance Service’s acting deputy commissioner for operations south, said the man had likely been bitten on the arm. “Despite heroic measures by both the bystanders and the Queensland Ambulance Service, he was unfortunately unable to be revived and has passed away.” The second man, also in his 60s, was transported to Mackay Base Hospital and is in a stable condition.
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