Dingo tried to pull girl from sleeping bag

A teenager says a dingo tried to drag her from her parents’ campsite near Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory.

Rebecca Robinson, 13, awoke on Sunday at the Aurora Kakadu Lodge in Jabiru to find the dingo was dragging her sleeping bag.

“I could feel someone pulling me. I was not going anywhere but I could feel the sleeping bag getting dragged,” she told the NT News.

“I woke up and there was a dingo there chewing at my sleeping bag.

“It was small, yellowy colour .. I could not see it that much but I saw its face,” she said.

Her mother Kate Robinson from Victoria told the newspaper her daughter weighed 45 to 50kg.

“They (dingoes) are that strong and bold,” Ms Robinson said.

At an inquest in Darwin earlier this year a coroner formally found that a dingo had killed Azaria Chamberlain, who disappeared from a campsite at Uluru in 1980.

The inquest heard evidence of several dingo attacks that had been recorded over the decades.

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