Police rescue drowning wallaby off Australian coast

Queensland Police footage shows officers rescuing a little wallaby from drowning over six kilometres out at sea, off North Stradbroke Island.

SHOWS: AT SEA (JANUARY 29, 2020) (QUEENSLAND POLICE - MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY QUEENSLAND POLICE) (MUTE) 1.

VARIOUS STILL PHOTOGRAPHS OF WALLABY SWIMMING IN SEA 2.

VARIOUS STILL PHOTOGRAPHS OF POLICE OFFICER HOLDING WALLABY AND PULLING IT OUT OF WATER 3.

VARIOUS STILL PHOTOGRAPHS OF POLICE OFFICER AND RESCUED WALLABY IN BOAT NORTH STRADBROKE ISLAND, AUSTRALIA (JANUARY 29, 2020) (QUEENSLAND POLICE - MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY QUEENSLAND POLICE) 4.

POLICE OFFICER RELEASING RESCUED WALLABY INTO FOREST STORY: Police officers rescued a little wallaby from drowning off Australia's east coast.

Footage posted by the Queensland Police shows the wallaby paddling more than six kilometres out to sea near North Stradbroke Island.

"On the morning of Wednesday, January 29, Water Police Brisbane received a call from a member of the public stating they had located a wallaby in distress out at sea," the police wrote in the statement.

The rescued wallaby was dried off and released into the forest on North Stradbroke Island.

(Production: Oleksandr Ieltsov)