Six-year-old
in hospital with leg injuries after being bitten by a dingo on a sand dune
Sat 19
Jan 2019 23.33 GMTLast modified on Sat 19 Jan
2019 23.35 GMT
A
six-year-old boy has been attacked after unexpectedly running into a pack of
dingoes on world heritage-listed Fraser Island, where the wild dog population
is a protected species.
The child
was bitten on the leg on Saturday afternoon after running up a sand dune.
The boy
had been swimming with his family, and ran up the dune, Royal Automobile Club
of Queensland Lifeflight
rescue helicopter crewman Dan Leggat said in a statement.
“Unfortunately,
when he got to the top, there was a pack of four dingoes,” Leggat said.
“One of
the dingoes attacked the boy and bit him on the leg,”
The boy
was treated by paramedics on the island and airlifted to the mainland at Hervey
Bay.
Fraser
Island, off Australia’s Queensland coast, is home to Australia’s most
significant purebred dingo colony. About 200 dingoes inhabit the sand island,
where they remain the apex predator and have been isolated from crossbreeding
with feral and domestic dogs.
Tourists
are warned to take precautions outside of fenced areas, including walking in
groups, keeping children within arm’s length and not running as it attracts
dingoes.
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