SYDNEY: A man escaped with cuts to his leg Monday after a shark crashed into his board while he was surfing near popular tourist spot Byron Bay in eastern Australia.

Beaches in the area, some 800 kilometers of Sydney, were closed for at least 24 hours after the early morning encounter, with the victim taken to hospital by a friend.

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