The young father reacted quickly as soon as he saw his son screaming and splashing after he was grabbed by the octopus. “I rushed down the beach, into the pristine waters and lifted my son who was entangled in the creature’s tentacles,” he said.
He said he could not figure out where the octopus came from. “Luckily there were no rocks nearby for the octopus to attach its tentacles to or it would have drowned my son so I dragged both the boy and his attacker ashore and into the ‘burao trees’ where I freed my son and we rushed him to hospital”.
