Bear Attack in Banff
ax...@freenet.carleton.ca
Orryan Schriver
ax...@freenet.carleton.ca wrote:
>Does anyone have details on the attacks that occurred yesterday?
I grabbed this from Nando News Network:
BANFF, Alberta -- An unprovoked grizzly bear attack in Banff National Park
turned a quiet campout into a night of
horror for six visitors. The culprits -- a sow and its cub -- were later
shot dead, officials said Tuesday.
Owen Hereford and Andrew Brodie of Melbourne, Australia, were asleep at
the Lake Louise campground when the
grizzly sow and cub attacked about 3 a.m. Monday.
"It ripped the tent straight off us so I was looking up at the stars,"
said Hereford, 22, who suffered bite wounds to a leg,
arm and abdomen. "It grabbed my sleeping bag and ripped it straight off my body.
"I stuck my hand up and it crunched right into my forearm. I was screaming
and kicking it. I punched and kicked it and it
wouldn't go away."
The bear didn't leave until Brodie threw a rock at its nose, Hereford told
reporters Tuesday at the Mineral Springs
Hospital in Banff.
Six people were injured in the attack, which park wardens say was
unprovoked. The sow and her cub were trapped
Monday evening and shot dead.
Survivor Susan Olin, 38, of Whitefish, Mont., who had stitches protruding
from a cut on her cheek and also suffered a
deep bite in her shoulder, said she has only "patchy memories" of the attack.
"The thing that was scariest was not knowing how long it was going to
last," Olin, a ranger at Glacier National Park in
Montana, said of the attack.
Hereford and Olin were treated in the Banff hospital. Brodie and Algis
Povilavicius of Germany were taken to Foothills
Hospital in Calgary.
Tanya Aberle-Povilavicius of Germany and Laura Shearin of Minneapolis were
treated and released.
The campground was closed after the attack and campers were escorted out.
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Orryan Schriver
CompuSmart West Edmonton