Jogger suffers horrific injuries after being ripped to shreds and kicked around like a ‘rag doll’ by savage kangaroo on her morning run
Vicious two-metre-tall beast launched brutal attack that left victim covered in blood
A JOGGER was left needing emergency surgery after she was mauled and booted by a rogue kangaroo.
Personal trainer Debbie Urquhart was attacked by a two-metre-tall male roo as she went for an early morning run near her home in Melbourne, Australia.
The 54-year-old said the kangaroo repeatedly kicked her on the right side of her body, ripped her clothes and “threw me around like a rag doll.”
Mrs Urquhart even played dead in an effort to stop the attack and managed to escape to safety after the kangaroo ran away.
She then ran about 500m back to her home, screaming and covered in blood.
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Husband Robert covered her in towels and rushed her to the emergency department at nearby Austin Hospital on Saturday.
"He ripped me to pieces,” Mrs Urquhart said.
“He just kept on kicking into me and I was trying to crawl away.
“He left me for a bit and I thought he was going to come back and kill me.”
Mrs Urquhart made it out of her ordeal without any broken bones but had to stay overnight at hospital as medics monitored her recovery.
She narrowly avoided needing plastic surgery and received 20 stitches in her right upper arm, 10 stitches in her right shoulder, and five stitches in three places on her buttocks.
The keen runner said memories of the horror attack are seared in her mind.
She continued: “Every time I close my eyes its pretty vivid, it’s horrible.
“If he had got to my stomach, I could have been killed”.
But Mrs Urquhart said she was determined to get over the attack as soon as possible and was planning to go back to work this week.
She said her strength and fitness are what saved her from being killed.
“I walked again yesterday afternoon as soon as I got back home from hospital,” she said.
But she said she wasn’t going to run near the walking track and the incident was a warning to nearby residents to be wary of kangaroo attacks.
It comes weeks after an Aussie dog owner punched a kangaroo that was attacking his pup.
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