A 7-year-old boy was attacked by a bear Tuesday morning in New York. He was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A bear attacked a seven-year-old boy outside his home inThe incident happened shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday morning, when the boy went to play in his backyard on Hickory Kingdom Road in the town of Bedford, the North Castle Police Department said in a press release.
The child's parents called 911 to report the attack and first responders rushed to the scene. Parents were seen treating their child when first responders arrived at the home.A bear attacked a seven-year-old boy outside his home in Westchester County, New York. The boy was treated by EMS and transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.at the scene noticed the bear had remained in the backyard where the attack occurred. Police said the bear continued to present a danger to first responders and residents in the area.
Black bear sightings are somewhat common in certain parts of Westchester County, but it is unusual for a bear not to retreat after an attack."Our concern was he did not retreat. At one point he did advance. When you have that many human beings, an animal of that kind would normally retreat, and it did not," North Castle police chief Peter Simonsen told Fox 5 New York.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation was notified that the bear was lurking and officers on the scene shot and killed the animal, police said in the press release.
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