https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-grizzly-bear-attack-schoolchildren-teachers-bella-coola/Educators used bear spray, bear bangers and anything they could to fend off a grizzly bear that attacked their Grade 4 and 5 students on a field trip into the woods on B.C.’s central coast.
Four people – one adult and three children – were badly mauled Thursday in the coastal community of Bella Coola and were airlifted to hospital in Vancouver, with two in critical condition, BC Emergency Health Services said. Seven others were treated for mild injuries and nine students from the Acwsalcta School unscathed, authorities said.
As the tightknit Nuxalk First Nation grappled with the brutal attack on students of their private school, the provincial Conservation Officer Service was warning everyone to stay indoors Friday. Eight officers were dispatched to investigate and to set traps. The officers collected physical evidence so they can try to match it to any animals they catch.
