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An angry kangaroo has viciously attacked a bushwalker trying to save the creature's joey that was caught in a barbed wire fence. 

Melanie Stubbs was hiking in Sydney's Blue Mountains when she came across a baby kangaroo in distress and decided to try and help.

Ms Stubbs said her 'motherly instinct' kicked in when she spotted the helpless creature and set about trying to free the animal's legs from the wire.

Footage of the incident shows the joey's mother frantically bounding around on the other side of the fence growling.

'We're trying to help the baby,' Ms Stubbs and a friend can be heard saying in an attempt to calm the worried animal.

But the joey's mother saw the hikers as a threat and charged at the pair as they yelled for it to 'go away'. 

The mother roo then slipped under the fence and pinned Ms Stubbs to the ground as she screamed in terror.

Ms Stubbs said the ordeal was 'frightening'.

'I remember being on my tummy trying to crawl away and I could feel it pounding on my back,' she told 9News.

'I had a backpack on so I think that saved my back a little.'

The roo had slashed her leg down to the bone and she required surgery.

Ms Stubbs then developed an infection which saw her going back to hospital for treatment everyday for almost three months.

She said she feels 'lucky' to have survived the incident and wants to warn others about the potential dangers of kangaroo attacks.

She said despite being raised in Australia, she was unaware kangaroos were capable of such viscous attacks on humans.