Black bear attacks campers in Colorado
15 July 2003
By Reuters
DENVER — For the first time in more than 30 years, a black bear has attacked people in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, where it ripped through tents and bit or scratched two campers, the park said Monday.
Attacks on people by black bears are very unusual and in this case the campers had properly stored their food to hide the smell, the park said in a statement.
The last incident in which a bear attacked a human in the park led to one fatality in 1971.
On Sunday morning, the bear bit through a tent and attacked a 22-year-old man from Boulder, Colorado, biting him in the forehead and scalp.
The man screamed and the bear let go, walking over to another tent nearby where he scratched an Illinois man. Three people in another tent nearby were not approached by the bear. The five campers were all in the back country.
The park said the two men suffered serious lacerations.
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