Young boy is flown to hospital after being attacked by a pack of wild dingoes on a remote island
- Boy attacked and bitten on the leg by dingoes on Queensland's Fraser Island
- He was returning to the family's campsite after a swim when the attack occurred
- He was airlifted to Hervey Bay Hospital by LifeFlight and is in a stable condition
- It's the seventh dingo attack at the popular tourist spot in the last 20 years
A young boy has been airlifted to hospital after he was attacked by four dingoes on a family camping trip.
The six-year-old boy was returning to his family's campsite on Queensland's Fraser Island on Saturday when he was bitten on the leg.
Emergency services were called to the scene at around 6pm.
'The family had finished swimming when the young boy said he wanted to race up a sand dune,' RACQ LifeFlight Rescue aircrewman Dan Leggat said.
An afternoon swim almost ended tragedy for one boy on Fraser Island on Saturday
'Unfortunately, when he got to the top, there was a pack of four dingoes.
Paramedics treated and stabilised the boy to be transported by the Bundaberg-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter.
Queensland Ambulance said the patient was conscious and alert before he was flown to Hervey Bay Hospital in a stable condition.
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It's the seventh dingo attack on Fraser Island in the last 20 years.
One attack resulted in the death of nine-year-old Clinton Gage.
His death sparked the culling of 31 dingoes which caused an outcry among residents.
There have been seven dingo attacks on Fraser Island in the last 20 years, including one death
Clinton's death was the first fatal dingo attack since the disappearance of nine-week-old baby girl Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru in 1980.
Her mother Lindy Chamberlain was initially convicted and jailed over her daughter's death but was later cleared.
The last dingo attack on the island was of two women in 2014.
The boy was returning to his family's campsite on Fraser Island (pictured) when he was bitten
'On Fraser Island, they have become used to tourists as tourists tend to feed them. This has led to dingoes lurking around camping areas,' one woman commented on Facebook on Sunday.
The latest dingo attack prompted a plea from the Fraser Island Dingo Conservation Action for parents to supervise their children at all times when visiting the heritage listed island
'This dingo can be saved by placing elsewhere,' the group posted on its Facebook page.'
'Where were the parents, where were rangers to stop interaction.
The last dingo attack in Australia was in Western Australia last July, where a woman required major surgery.
The young boy was airlifted to hospital after he was attacked by a pack of wild dingoes
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