{"id":393757,"date":"2025-11-21T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393757\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:46:12","slug":"2-in-critical-condition-after-reported-grizzly-bear-attack-in-bella-coola-rcmp-say-students-may-be-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393757\/","title":{"rendered":"2 in critical condition after reported grizzly bear attack in Bella Coola, RCMP say students may be involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two people are in critical condition and two others are seriously injured after a reported grizzly bear attack in Bella Coola on British Columbia\u2019s Central Coast, according to emergency officials. <\/p>\n

B.C. Emergency Health Services says seven additional people were treated at the scene but did not require transport to hospital. <\/p>\n

BCEHS said it received a call at 1:46 p.m. PT Thursday about an \u201canimal attack\u201d on a trail near Highway 20. Two ambulances and a community paramedic responded. <\/p>\n

In a statement posted on Facebook, the B.C. Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS) said conservation officers are on scene with RCMP and have ordered residents to stay out of the forested and river area near the 4 Mile area until further notice.<\/p>\n

Officials say public safety is the priority as they assess the situation.<\/p>\n

Students were reportedly involved, RCMP say <\/p>\n

RCMP North District Cpl. Madonna Saunderson confirmed police received reports of the attack around 1:30 p.m. PT Thursday and that it was reported students were involved, though she said officers are still working to determine how many people were injured and their ages.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are devastated for the individuals and families impacted by the bear incident,\u201d Nuxalk Nation Chief Samuel Schooner said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cAll individuals involved are receiving medical support and our priority is to ensure that they are safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-393757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115585639738901117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}