Posted on 11/21/2025 5:42:13 AM PST by DFG
A grizzly bear attacked a group of elementary school students and teachers in Canada, leaving 11 people injured.
Two people were left critically injured, and two sustained serious injuries following the attack at Acwsalcta School on Thursday in Bella Coola, northwest of Vancouver.
Emergency Health Services spokesman Brian Twaites said in a statement that two ambulances and a helicopter were called to the scene.
'Paramedics provided emergency medical treatment to four patients and transported them to hospital. Two patients were in critical condition and two were in serious condition,' he said.
Police corporal Madonna Saunderson said she did not yet know the age or gender of the injured students, but described the victims' injuries as 'very serious at the very least.'
Veronica Schooner said her 10-year-old son Alvarez was in the Year 4-5 class that was attacked while on a walk and was so close to the animal 'he even felt its fur.'
'He was running for his life,' she told local media.
Ms Schooner said several people attempted to halt the attack but one male teacher 'got the whole brunt of it' and was among the people taken by helicopter from the scene.
She added that Alvarez was left 'traumatized' by the attack on his friends, and three children were among those with major injuries, although Emergency Health Services have not officially confirmed the ages of any of the victims.
'He said that bear ran so close to him, but it was going after somebody else,' said Ms Schooner.
She said that when she picked up Alvarez, he was 'in shock,' and his shoes were covered in mud from his ordeal.
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Well, duh! No wonder! Did the Teacher and the Students make a Land Acknowledgement to the Grizzly Bears first??? If not, then they deserved to be mauled as colonial invaders!!!
“If only some adult on the hike had a firearm...”
In Canada? New York north? Surely you jest.
“If only some adult on the hike had a firearm...”
In Canada? New York north? Surely you jest.
On school grounds...they'd be arrested. Same for school trips to state owned "parks".
According to the article, kids who go to elementary school in Bella Coola, Canada.
Maybe the school should rethink the policy of hiking in grizzly areas with school children.
This is the direct result of ignorant government policy.
Yipes! Prayers up. This is that time of year when the grizzled b’ars are fattening up for a long winter’s nap - they’re very active and unpredictable. Not when I’d choose to lead a line of 10-year-olds through the sticks.
Gun free zone.
Free bear zone.
Adults should be ashamed of themselves forever.
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