Canadian girl discovered lifeless surrounded by dingoes on Australian seashore

A 19-year-old Canadian girl has been discovered lifeless, along with her physique surrounded by a pack of dingoes on a well-liked Australian seashore, in accordance with native officers.

The physique of the vacationer, whose identify has not been launched, was discovered round 06:30 native time on Monday (20:30 GMT on Sunday) on the seashore on K’Gari, an island off Australia’s jap coast, Queensland police stated in a information launch.

Two males driving alongside the seashore noticed a pack of about10 dingoes round an object, which they realised was a girl’s physique, police inspector Paul Algie advised native media.

Police are investigating the incident, however can not but affirm whether or not she died from drowning or from being attacked by the animals, he stated.

However, Algie stated there have been markings on the physique “consistent with having been touched and interfered with by the dingoes”.

“It was obviously a very traumatic and horrific scene for them to uncover,” he stated.

The girl, who had been working at a backpacker’s hostel for the previous six weeks, advised pals she was going for a 05:00 morning swim, Australia’s ABC information outlet reported.

“She was a young woman enjoying a beautiful part of the world, and that’s what makes this such a tragedy,” Algie stated.

A autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.

Her physique was discovered close to the Maheno shipwreck, which was wrecked and washed ashore in 1935 – its skeletal stays have change into a well-liked vacationer vacation spot.

The space is thought for its inhabitants of dingoes, a wild species of canine protected in Queensland nationwide parks as a local species.

“K’gari is a wilderness area,” Algie advised native shops, warning folks they need to keep away from approaching the animals.

“Dingoes are wild animals, and whilst they are very culturally significant to the local First Nations people and to the people that live on the island, they are still wild animals and need to be treated as such.”