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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Woman’s body found surrounded by dingoes on popular Australian tourist island K’gari

A white sand beach at K'gari, Queensland
Queensland police said the woman ‘may have gone for a swim around 5am’ on Monday before officers were called to the beach at 6.35am. Photograph: zstockphotos/Getty Images/iStockphoto

A 19-year-old Canadian woman found dead on the beach on a popular tourist island off the Queensland coast on Monday morning was discovered surrounded by a pack of dingoes.

But despite confirming her body had been “touched and interfered with” by the wild canids on K’gari (formerly known as Fraser Island), police say they will await a postmortem before speculating as to the cause of her death.

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