Dingo 'held child underwater' on Australian island
A young girl has been flown to hospital after she was attacked by a dingo on Australia's K'gari-Fraser Island.
The primary school-aged child was swimming when the dingo "tried to grab her and reportedly held her under water for a few seconds", rescuers said.Paramedics treated the girl at the scene before she was airlifted to hospital in a stable condition.K'gari-Fraser Island in Queensland, a popular tourist destination with World Heritage status, is also home to some 200 wild dingos.
In 2001, a nine-year-old boy was killed near a campsite on the island, in Australia's first fatal dingo attack since the disappearance of nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru-Ayers Rock in 1980.
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