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| Toddler rescued after dingo drags him from Fraser Island campsite | Toddler rescued after dingo drags him from Fraser Island campsite |
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| A toddler has escaped with cuts to his neck and head after his father snatched him from a dingo’s jaws on Queensland’s Fraser Island. | A toddler has escaped with cuts to his neck and head after his father snatched him from a dingo’s jaws on Queensland’s Fraser Island. |
| Paramedic Ben Du Toit said the family was camping in a remote area of the island in the state’s south-east on Thursday night when a dingo entered their campervan and bit the toddler’s neck. | Paramedic Ben Du Toit said the family was camping in a remote area of the island in the state’s south-east on Thursday night when a dingo entered their campervan and bit the toddler’s neck. |
| The boy started crying as the dog began to drag him away into the bush. | The boy started crying as the dog began to drag him away into the bush. |
| “The parents awoke with the toddler crying and heard the crying getting further away from the campervan,” Du Toit said. | “The parents awoke with the toddler crying and heard the crying getting further away from the campervan,” Du Toit said. |
| Paradise restored: K'gari native title success the start of a new story for Fraser Island | Paradise restored: K'gari native title success the start of a new story for Fraser Island |
| The father ran outside and snatched his child from the dingo’s jaws before chasing off several other dingoes and calling triple zero. | The father ran outside and snatched his child from the dingo’s jaws before chasing off several other dingoes and calling triple zero. |
| Paramedics later treated two deep cuts on the toddler’s neck near the back of his head and some minor cuts on his head at the Eurong beach resort. | Paramedics later treated two deep cuts on the toddler’s neck near the back of his head and some minor cuts on his head at the Eurong beach resort. |
| The toddler was airlifted to Hervey Bay hospital, but was then found also to have a fractured skull and at about 8am the boy was transferred to the Children’s hospital in Brisbane. | |
| Du Toit warned visitors to Fraser Island – known as K’gari to the local Butchalla people – to heed rangers’ advice and stay away from dingoes. | Du Toit warned visitors to Fraser Island – known as K’gari to the local Butchalla people – to heed rangers’ advice and stay away from dingoes. |
| “Just stay well clear of them, keep all food sources well locked up and away from dingoes, and never walk alone, always walk in groups,” he said. | “Just stay well clear of them, keep all food sources well locked up and away from dingoes, and never walk alone, always walk in groups,” he said. |
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