Bear attacks three-year-old girl playing on deck outside home in Maple Ridge, B.C.
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MAPLE RIDGE — A young girl is in hospital after police and conservation officials say she was attacked by a bear outside her family’s home in a city east of Vancouver.
British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service says in an online statement that the three-year-old was attacked by an adult black bear in Maple Ridge shortly before noon on Sunday while playing on her family’s backyard deck.
The statement says a parent who was nearby intervened and chased the bear away, and the child was airlifted to BC Children’s Hospital where she is being treated for injuries described as non-life-threatening.
Mounties say in a statement that while their officers were at the scene, the bear returned to the home and the immediate area multiple times, and officers decided to shoot it since it appeared aggressive and had already attacked the child.
