By Nic White For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 22:16 BST, 18 April 2019 | Updated: 01:20 BST, 19 April 2019
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A baby boy was saved from a pack of dingoes by his father who wrestled him away from the wild dogs.
The 14-month-old was dragged by his head from the family's caravan on Fraser Island as his parents slept after at least two dingoes broke in.
The parents awoke to the sounds of their baby screaming, with the cries getting fainter as he was dragged farther away.
The boy was airlifted to hospital by RACQ LifeFlight Rescue after he was attacked by the dingoes on Fraser Island, Queensland
The boy was treated by paramedics stationed on the island before an RACQ LifeFlight helicopter arrived about 2.30am on Friday
The father looked outside then heroically confronted the dingoes and rescued his child before chasing some of the pack away.
The dingoes were believed to have crawled underneath a canvas flap over the doorway and taken the boy as he slept.
The boy's four-year-old sister was also sleeping in the campervan near their parents when the dingoes entered.
'He was apparently grabbed around the back of the neck area and dragged away,' the pilot Frank Bertoli told reporters.
'If it wasn't for the parents fighting off the dingo he could have had much more severe injuries.'
The boy was treated by paramedics stationed on the island before an RACQ LifeFlight helicopter arrived about 1.40am on Friday.
The boy was bleeding heavily but was in a stable condition in Hervey Bay Hospital by morning. He was later transferred to Queensland Children's Hospital in Brisbane.
He suffered a fractured skull and cuts and puncture wounds to his neck and head in the attack.
The latest incident is an eerie reminder of a case which captivated Australia in 1980, when Lindy Chamberlain's nine-week-old baby Azaria was taken by a dingo in the Northern Territory
Paramedic Ben Du Toit advised visitors to avoid dingoes and never to venture out on the island alone.
'Just stay well clear of them, keep all food sources well locked up and away from dingoes, and never walk alone, always walk in groups,' he said.
It is the ninth dingo attack on Fraser Island in the past 20 years, and the third this year after a six-year-old boy Michael Schipanski was mauled in January.
'I heard him screaming bone-chilling screams of terror and fear and pain, and
