Tourist mysteriously found dead surrounded by dingoes on Australian beach
A Canadian teenage backpacker was found dead on an Australian beach. Her body was surrounded by a pack of dingoes.
The discovery was made on K’gari beach, an island where she had been living and working for the past six weeks. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site, which has become a popular tourist destination that attracts visitors from across the world.
At 5am local time on January 19th, the 19-year-old had told fellow travellers at her hostel, where she had also been working, that she was going for an early morning swim.
An hour later, two men driving past the beach saw the dingoes surrounding her body, and the incident was reported to the relevant authorities.
Queensland Police Inspector Paul Algie has yet to say the dingoes were responsible for her death, but did reveal during a press conference, “I can confirm that the woman’s body had been touched and interfered with by the dingoes.”
He then insisted, “But we’re not speculating yet as to whether that was anything to do with her cause of death.”
Algie then warned anyone visiting the island, “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.”
While K’gari attracts 500,000 visitors per year, its permanent population is only in the hundreds. Algie says they have been rocked by the death, noting “everyone is absolutely horrified and shocked at what has occurred”.
An autopsy is set to be carried out on the mainland. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been instructed to contact the woman’s family.