An Australian woman on Thursday revealed how an angry kangaroo knocked her to the ground while she walked to work.

Petra Oligmuller suffered cuts in the attack which happened last week while she was walking to her job at the local aged care center at 6 a.m. in Toogoolawah, a small town about 120 km from Brisbane.

Oligmuller said she was very close to her work place when she spotted two kangaroos in a paddock.

"One came across and stopped at the gully, then he roared at me and I froze," she told Fairfax Media.

"But he didn't stop. Then he came at me so I swung my backpack and he knocked me over and I ended up on the bitumen (road)," she said. "I've walked that road for 14 years and never had anything like it ... It really just scared the crap out of me."

Oligmuller, a 1.6-meter-tall woman, said the kangaroo was taller than her and managed to rip her backpack.

She said she was lucky to have escaped serious injury and would drive to work from now on. Endi

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