Published: 02:13 EST, 27 May 2014 | Updated: 04:15 EST, 27 May 2014
The 29-year-old said she was drinking with friends at 9.30pm on Saturday when she slipped off a dock and fell into the water
A woman claims to have been bitten by a bull shark after falling into a canal on the Gold Coast at the weekend.Bianca Freeman, 29, posted photos of her wounds to social media on Saturday saying they were inflicted by a shark in the canals between Surfers and Chevron Island.
Ms Freeman said she was drinking with friends at 9.30pm on Saturday when she slipped off a dock and fell into the water.
Bianca Freeman required 20 stitches after she was bitten by a bull shark on the Gold Coast at the weekend
A bull shark latched onto her thigh within seconds and took a large bite out of her leg.
Ms Freeman was rushed via ambulance to a medical centre where it took 20 stitches to close up the wound, according to Nine News.
‘(There was) so much blood, the outfit I was wearing was completely covered,’ Ms Freeman said.
‘I had socks on and they were completely red. It looked like something out of a horror movie.’
She posted two photos of her injuries to her Instagram account – one shows her thigh covered in stitches, while the other shows several bandages wrapped around her leg.
‘Ever survived a shark attack? I have but my phone didn’t!’ she wrote alongside photos of her injuries.
While she joked about being ‘shark bait’, local emergency services don’t have a record of any such attack.
She says a bull shark latched onto her thigh within seconds and took a large bite out of her le
‘We are currently looking into it but we haven’t come across a case like that yet,’ a Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman told MailOnline.
‘We would obviously know if someone responded to a shark attack.’
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