{"id":205204,"date":"2025-10-11T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205204\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:29:07","slug":"young-boy-flown-to-brisbane-hospital-after-kgari-dingo-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205204\/","title":{"rendered":"Young boy flown to Brisbane hospital after K&#8217;gari dingo attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A primary-school-aged boy has been flown to hospital in Brisbane after he was attacked by a dingo on K&#8217;gari.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesperson said the boy was treated for bites and cuts to his head near Coolooloi Creek about 3pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was taken to the Queensland Children&#8217;s Hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation spokesperson said the dingo had approached the child and his grandfather while they were on the beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The spokesperson urged visitors to K&#8217;gari to always walk in groups, carry a stick, and keep children within arm&#8217;s reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A primary-school-aged boy has been flown to hospital in Brisbane after he was attacked by a dingo on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25653,64,63,127424,127426,127422,127423,44,127425,127427],"class_list":["post-205204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-attack","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coolooloi-creek","tag-department-of-environment","tag-dingo","tag-kgari","tag-news","tag-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service","tag-tourism-science-and-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}