A young boy has been attacked by a group of dingoes on Australia’s popular tourist spot of Fraser Island.
One of the wild dogs bit the six-year old at a beach after he’d been swimming with his parents.
He was airlifted to a nearby hospital and is in a stable condition.
Australia’s dingoes are protected in some national parks but there have been rare instances where they have attacked people.
“The family had finished swimming when the young boy said he wanted to race up a sand dune,” Dan Leggat of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland Lifeflight rescue told local media. Read more