WA dingo attack mum: I thought I would die

A Perth mother, who was attacked last week by three dingoes as she ate her lunch at the East Pilbara Telfer mine, says she thought she would die.

A fly-in-fly-out worker attacked by three dingoes at a West Australian mine thought she would die when three dingoes savaged her leg down to the bone as she ate her lunch.

Perth mother Debbie Rundle, 54, was at a designated safe eating area at the East Pilbara Telfer Mine on Wednesday when one dingo approached and stole her mobile phone, before two other dingoes attacked her.

"I looked down and I thought oh my, am I gonna die? Are they gonna get me down?" Ms Rundle told Seven News Perth from her hospital bed in the State Trauma Ward at Royal Perth Hospital, where she is recovering from surgery after her right ankle was bitten to the bone.