A teenage boy is fighting for his life in a Brisbane hospital after accidentally being hit on the head with a golf club while hunting for cane toads with his mates. The 13-year-old’s friends frantically performed CPR after the boy was struck near a former Maroochydore golf course about 7.30pm on Saturday. Paramedics rushed the boy to Nambour hospital in a critical condition and he was then flown to Brisbane’s Lady Cilento children’s hospital. The race that stops the territory: crocodiles, cane toads and a lightning strike Read morePolice said it was an accident and there were no suspicious circumstances. The RSPCA has repeatedly appealed to Queenslanders intent on killing cane toads not to hit them with golf clubs or cricket bats, saying such methods rarely kill the pests.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2016 23:37 UTC