CP NewsAlert: Coroner says B.C. teen was forced into water by dingoes in Australia

By Canadian Press on March 5, 2026.

BRISBANE — A coroner in Australia has determined that a 19-year-old British Columbia woman drowned when she was attacked by a pack of dingoes on an early morning walk.

Piper James was on a backpacking trip and had been working on the island of K’Gari when she died on Jan. 19.

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The Canadian Press