Police in Queensland, Australia are investigating the loss of life of a 19-year-old girl after her physique was found surrounded by wild canine on a seashore at K’Gari, previously generally known as Fraser Island.
The island, a UNESCO world heritage website, lies off Australia’s jap coast and attracts a whole bunch of hundreds of guests every year.
The girl was a Canadian nationwide who had spent the previous six weeks working at a backpackers’ hostel on the island, Queensland police stated throughout a press convention. They stated she had traveled there with a buddy from her dwelling nation.
Around 5 a.m. native time on Monday (2 p.m. ET on Sunday), the lady instructed folks she was going for an early morning swim, police stated.
Just over an hour later, two males driving previous the seashore noticed a pack of roughly 10 dingoes surrounding her physique.
Police stated it’s too early to know if the lady’s loss of life was induced by the wild canine, that are protected as a local species in Queensland’s nationwide parks.
“I can confirm that the woman’s body had been touched and interfered with by the dingoes,” stated Queensland Police Inspector Paul Algie, “but we’re not speculating yet as to whether that was anything to do with her cause of death.”
Algie added that whereas dingoes are culturally important to the island’s locals and Indigenous folks, “they’re wild animals and they need to be treated as such.”
“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 move around them accordingly.”
Algie stated the incident has rocked the island’s tight-knit local people. “The police on K’Gari are locals to K’Gari. They have been speaking to local community members all day and as you can imagine, everyone is absolutely horrified and shocked at what has occurred.”
The girl’s physique has been returned to the mainland and is about for post-mortem on Wednesday.
Queensland police stated they’ve notified the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to get involved with the sufferer’s household. NCS has reached out to the RCMP for remark.