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MYSTERIOUS: Man fights for life after leg amputated in river rescue | Mind Blowing Facts

A man has had his leg amputated after he became trapped in Tasmania's Franklin River. (HANDOUT/TOURISM TASMANIA)

A man has had his leg amputated and is fighting for life following a complex rescue in southwest Tasmania after he fell into a rock crevice during a rafting trip with friends.

The international visitor, aged in his 60s, was pack rafting along the Franklin River when he slipped and became trapped between rocks in rapids on Friday afternoon, Tasmania Police Acting Assistant Commissioner Doug Oosterloo said.

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