"Eleven people, some as young as nine years old, were injured on Thursday when the bear emerged from the forest near 4 Mile, a Nuxalk community near the town Bella Coola and attacked a school group on a lunch break alongside a walking trail. Three teachers fought the bear off: one emptied two cans of bear spray that appeared to have little effect, another jumped on the bear, pummeling it with punches. A third hit the grizzly repeatedly with her crutches."
"Conservation officers say that given the size of the group, the attack was largely unprecedented in the region. But it has sent ripples of worry throughout 4 Mile, and put the outdoors-oriented residents on lockdown as officers search for the aggressive bear. Over the weekend, the province's conservation service said it had scoured a large, cordoned-off area of the Bella Coola River valley for the female bear and her two cubs, but the rocky and densely forested landscape has offered up few clues."
A female grizzly bear emerged near 4 Mile, a Nuxalk community near Bella Coola, and attacked a school group on a lunch break alongside a walking trail. Eleven people were injured, including children as young as nine; three children and an adult were taken to hospital, with two children critically injured. Three teachers intervened using bear spray, physical force, and crutches to drive the bear away. Conservation officers have cordoned off and searched a large area of the Bella Coola River valley for the sow and her two cubs. The rocky, densely forested terrain has yielded few clues, and officers plan live-trapping and DNA sampling where possible.
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