Woman recounts terrifying attack by pack of dingoes in Australia after one stole her phone
‘Oh my God, am I going to die?’
A woman has been savaged by dingoes in the Australian desert, with the mining worker describing how she feared for her life as the pack of wild dogs tore flesh from her legs.
Deb Rundle was on her lunch break at a site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia last week when she followed a small dingo after it snatched her phone.
The 54-year-old said she then noticed three other nearby animals, and as she began backing away, they attacked.
“There was blood everywhere on the ground. I just looked at my wounds and ‘Oh my God’,” she told Channel Seven television late Monday from her hospital bed.
“I looked down and thought ‘Oh my God, am I going to die?, are they going to get me down?’.”
Rundle, who will undergo reconstructive surgery to graft skin to her body, said she screamed for 10 minutes before colleagues came to her aid.
“They just wouldn’t let go. I think once they had the taste they just didn’t let go,” she said of the feral dogs, which are native to Australia.