A father has saved his son from a dingo attack after the toddler was dragged from a campervan at an Australian tourist island, say officials.<\/p>\n
The 14-month-old boy was sleeping inside the vehicle on a remote area of Fraser Island in Queensland when the wild dog entered and bit his neck.<\/p>\n
His parents were woken by their son’s cries which were “getting further away from the campervan”, said a paramedic.<\/p>\n
The father immediately ran out and snatched him from the dingo’s jaws.<\/p>\n
The toddler suffered two deep cuts to the top of his neck and minor cuts to his scalp in Thursday’s incident. He was airlifted to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
Paramedic Ben Du Toit told local media the father, who has not been named, “found the dingo dragging the toddler away from the campervan”.<\/p>\n
Several other dingoes were in the area.<\/p>\n
“He immediately ran up and grabbed his son and chased some of the dingoes off,” said Mr Du Toit.<\/p>\n
It is the third dingo attack on Fraser Island this year – both previous attacks also involved children.<\/p>\n
The most famous case of a dingo attack involved nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain, who disappeared from a campsite near Uluru\/Ayers Rock in 1980.<\/p>\n
Her mother was convicted of her murder and spent three years in jail before a court quashed her conviction and\u00a0ruled that her baby had been taken by a dingo.<\/p>\n
Dingoes are thought to be descended from a domestic dog brought in from Indonesia some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago.<\/p>\n
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BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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