A baby is recovering in hospital after he was attacked by a dingo in Australia.

It is believed the dingo dragged the child from a camper van, where he had been sleeping with his parents.

It happened on Fraser Island on Thursday night.

The parents were woken by their son's cries, which were becoming more distant as he was being dragged.

The father ran outside, to find a dingo had dragged his child "some distance" from the van.

The father fought off the dingo and succeeded in getting the boy away.

The child has been airlifted from Hervey Bay Hospital to the Queensland Children's Hospital.

He was airlifted in a stable condition to hospital, paramedics said, along with his mother.

Air ambulance pilot Frank Bertoli, who attended the scene at Fraser Island in Queensland, praised the parents' "quick thinking".

He said: "[The baby] was apparently grabbed around the back of the neck area and dragged away.

"So if it wasn't for the parents and their quick thinking and fighting off the dingoes, he probably would have had more severe injuries."

He is the third child attacked by dingoes on Fraser Island this year, Mr Bertoli confirmed.

Extra rangers have been assigned to investigate the attack and patrol the island.

Additional reporting: IRN