A two-year-old was attacked and bitten by a dingo on a remote beach in Western Australia last week, while her family were having a beach picnic.

The Dwyer family were holidaying at the Kooljaman resort at Cape Leveque, located 220km north of Broome, on Friday evening when the attack occurred.

Stella Dwyer was crawling along the beach when the dingo clawed her back and bit her buttocks through her nappy.

It is understood the wild dog first latched onto Stella's toy elephant before trying to drag the little girl away.

The incident happened at at the Kooljaman resort at Cape Leveque, located 220km north of Broome. Photo: Getty Images/Lonely Planet

Stella's mother, Christine Dwyer, told ABC Radio: "She tried to crawl away and was crying, and it just ran back in and grabbed her on the back and buttocks."

"It tried to drag her backwards but it only got maybe six inches."

The girl's alarmed parents chased the dingo away and luckily the bites didn't draw blood, a spokesman for wilderness camp Kooljaman at Cape Leveque told AAP, adding it was distressing for staff.









Resort staff reportedly shooed away the dog the hotel nurses treated the little girl's scratches and puncture wounds.

The dog is understood to be the same animal that has been stealing rubbish from the local tip for the past few months, ABC reports.

"They (the staff) actually informed us that this one dingo has been a nuisance since January and that they've requested on numerous occasions to have it dealt with but it hasn't happened," Ms Dwyer said.

The Shire of Broome said rangers had located and shot one dingo but were unable to find the one believed to have bitten the baby.

The attack comes just 36 years after Azaria Chamberlain was killed by a dingo in Uluru in a case that attracted the attention of the nation.

Azaria's mother Lindy was convicted of murder and jailed but released after three years when that decision was overturned.

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