A five-year-old boy was bitten multiple times by a dingo, a wild dog, while playing on an Australian beach on Sunday. as reported The Guardianthe boy was shot in the head, arm and buttocks near a campsite on Fraser Island.
The child “is fine”, according to the spokesman for the Hervey Bay hospital, where he is admitted. According to rescuers, the boy “was slightly bitten before his father managed to push the dingo off.”
According to the city’s mayor, George Seylour, such an attack occurs “once a year.” Local authorities have already warned that the dingo population could increase in December and are calling for caution, despite the fact that a seven-kilometer barrier was established last week around the beach of Playa Orquídea.
Caution
For the councilor, who says he is “worried about dingo attacks”, it is not about hunting or killing these wild dogs, an essential part of the island. “It’s nature, so there is a risk of attack by wild animals and I think the rangers do their job of prevention wonderfully,” he said.
To avoid attacks, residents are urged to watch their children, move in groups, stay behind the fence, not run, lock up food and not store food or waste in tents.
The last fatal dingo attack on Fraser Island was about 20 years ago, when two wild dogs chased a 9-year-old boy.
Source: BFM TV
