Bear still on the prowl after attack in Colorado leaves girl with more than 70 stitches
May 14, 2018 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
5-year-old girl survives bear attack
Girl was attacked by a bear in Colorado.
A 5-year-old Colorado girl is expected to survive after she was attacked early Sunday by a bear, which is still being hunted by authorities.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a news release the girl went outside around 2:30 a.m. after hearing noises she mistook for her dog in the yard in East Orchard Mesa, above the Colorado River corridor in Grand Junction.
The girl’s mom then heard screaming and went outside to find a large black bear dragging her daughter. She told CPW officers the bear dropped the girl after she began screaming at the animal.
“She came out, she yelled at the animal,” CPW spokesman Mike Porras told FOX31 Denver. “She screamed at it— and by doing so she probably saved her little girl’s life.”
Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Mike Porras said a mom saved her daughter’s life by yelling at a bear.
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The girl was then rushed to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Junction, where she underwent a surgery lasting an hour and 45 minutes and required more than 70 stitches.
“Fortunately she had no life-threatening injuries,” pediatric surgeon Dr. Charles Breaux of St. Mary’s Medical Center told FOX31. “No injuries to her brain or chest organs or abdominal organs and no fractures.”
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Breaux told FOX31 the bear bit the girl multiple times on her backside, and doctors will monitor the girl to ensure she doesn’t have rabies.
Federal and state wildlife officers are using traps in an effort to capture the bear, which is now considered dangerous.
“The goal is to trap the bear, and if we do, we are going to put that bear down,” Porras said.
While bear attacks on humans are rare, Porras told FOX31 there is growing concern as more people move to Colorado and push further into bear country.
Fox News’ Katherine Lam contributed to this report.
Travis Fedschun is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @travfed
