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Body of Canadian woman found in Australia <\/p>\nThe body of a 19-year-old Canadian woman was found surrounded by a pack of dingoes in Australia, but police do not know if her death was caused by the wild dogs <\/p>\n
Police in Queensland, Australia are investigating the death of a 19-year-old woman after her body was found surrounded by wild dogs on a beach at K\u2019Gari, formerly known as Fraser Island.<\/p>\n
The island, a UNESCO world heritage site, lies off Australia\u2019s eastern coast and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.<\/p>\n
The woman was a Canadian national who had spent the past six weeks working at a backpackers\u2019 hostel on the island, Queensland police said during a press conference. They said she had travelled there with a friend from her home country.<\/p>\n
Around 5 a.m. local time on Monday (2 p.m. ET on Sunday), the woman told people she was going for an early morning swim, police said.<\/p>\n
Just over an hour later, two men driving past the beach spotted a pack of approximately 10 dingoes surrounding her body.<\/p>\n
Police said it is too early to know if the woman\u2019s death was caused by the wild dogs, which are protected as a native species in Queensland\u2019s national parks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can confirm that the woman\u2019s body had been touched and interfered with by the dingoes,\u201d said Queensland Police Inspector Paul Algie, \u201cbut we\u2019re not speculating yet as to whether that was anything to do with her cause of death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Algie added that while dingoes are culturally significant to the island\u2019s locals and Indigenous people, \u201cthey\u2019re wild animals and they need to be treated as such.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI implore all people that visit K\u2019Gari, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Body of Canadian woman found in Australia <\/p>\n
Algie said the incident has rocked the island\u2019s tight-knit local community. \u201cThe police on K\u2019Gari are locals to K\u2019Gari. They have been speaking to local community members all day and as you can imagine, everyone is absolutely horrified and shocked at what has occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s body has been returned to the mainland and is set for autopsy on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
CTV News reached out to Global Affairs Canada, who responded with an email saying they are aware of the death and are providing consular assistance to the family. <\/p>\n
Queensland police said they have notified the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to get in contact with the victim\u2019s family. CNN has reached out to the RCMP for comment.<\/p>\n
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