Police probe if dead backpacker was ‘attacked’ by dingoes in mystery Australia death

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Police probe if dead backpacker was ‘attacked’ by dingoes in mystery Australia death
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Wide Bay District Inspector Paul Algie said the woman had been living and working on the island for six weeks with a friend. The woman went to a beach about 5 a.m. for a swim then was found by two men driving past, who saw about 10 dingoes surrounding an object on the shore about one hour later.

“ is very traumatised, she’s been supported by her friends at the backpackers where they were working.hyserb – stock.adobe.com According to Wide Bay District Inspector Paul Algie, the woman’s body had been “touched and interfered with” by the dingoes, but may not have caused her death.Algie said the woman’s body had been “touched and interfered with” by the dingoes, but they were not speculating whether that had anything to do with her cause of death. “K’gari is a wilderness area, dingoes are wild animals, and while they are very culturally and significant to the local First Nations people and to the people that live on the island, they are still wild animals and need to be treated as such,” he said. “I implore all people that visit K’gari, which is a beautiful place, that you do not go near dingoes, that you do not feed dingoes and that you just leave them to live their life and you need to move around them accordingly.”She sustained significant wounds to her body, the Courier-Mail reports.“We may not know until a post-mortem as to the actual cause of death,” Inspector Algie said.Friends told the Courier-Mail the woman had been living at K’gari for some time and was working at a backpacker’s hostel. “Police are appealing to anyone who may have relevant information, including dashcam vision or witnessed anything to come forward,” a police statement read.They urged people to not jump to conclusions about the woman’s death. Greenlanders speak out against Danish rule after decades of forced sterilization, poor living conditions: 'They stole our future’NATO's show of force fizzles as German troops exit Greenland after two days – as Trump aims to acquire islandGolden Globes Glambot director sets record straight on Jennifer Lopez’s ‘rude’ red carpet behaviorBroncos add journeyman QB straight from TV gig to be Bo Nix injury insurance: 'Let’s go get a Super Bowl?'

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