Authorities have been attempting to find out on Tuesday whether or not a Canadian girl discovered useless on an Australian seashore had been killed by dingoes.
The 19-year-old girl was discovered on a seashore at Okay’gari, previously generally known as Fraser Island, on Monday. Police mentioned her physique had been “interfered with” by native Australian canines.
However police wouldn’t speculate on the reason for loss of life, saying her physique had been found 90 minutes after she went for a morning swim on the world’s largest sand island off the Queensland state coast.
Police have been referred to as to the seashore close to a shipwreck, a well-liked vacationer attraction, at 6.35 a.m.
Two males have been driving an SUV alongside the seashore once they noticed round 10 dingoes close to the physique, Police Insp. Paul Algie mentioned.
“It was clearly a really traumatic and horrific scene for them to uncover,” Algie advised reporters.
“I can verify there was markings on her physique in line with having been touched and interfered with by the dingoes,” he added.
A autopsy examination of the stays to find out the reason for loss of life was anticipated to be accomplished on Wednesday.
“We merely can’t verify whether or not this younger girl drowned or died because of being attacked by dingoes,” Algie mentioned.
The lady had been working at a vacationer lodging on the island for about six weeks.
Three years in the past, a pack of dingoes mauled a 23-year-old jogger in an assault police mentioned was nearly deadly. The canines had pushed the lady into the surf earlier than a vacationer got here to her rescue, beating off the attackers. Police mentioned the person had saved her life.
About 200 dingoes roam free on Okay’gari and are a protected native species on the World Heritage-listed nationwide park.
The youthful animals have turn out to be extra aggressive and fewer frightened of people since vacationers returned in massive numbers following the COVID-19 pandemic.
