Man seriously injured in shark attack

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A man has been taken to hospital after being bitten by a shark off the central Queensland coast. -AAP Image

A man has been taken to hospital after a shark attack off the central Queensland coast.

Paramedics were called out to a beach at Seventeen Seventy near Gladstone after 4.30pm AEST on Friday.

They discovered a man in his 20s with a "significant leg injury" from a shark bite, Queensland Ambulance Service said.

He was treated on the beach before being transported to Bundaberg hospital in a serious condition.