{"id":394930,"date":"2025-11-21T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394930\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:41:13","slug":"eleven-injured-after-grizzly-bear-attacks-schoolchildren-and-teachers-in-canada-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394930\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven injured after grizzly bear attacks schoolchildren and teachers in Canada | Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A grizzly bear has attacked a group of schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in British Columbia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a>, injuring 11 people, two of them critically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The attack happened late on Thursday in Bella Coola, 435 miles (700km) north-west of Vancouver. The Nuxalk Nation said the \u201caggressive bear\u201d remained on the loose and police and conservation officers were on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cOfficers are armed. Remain indoors and off the highway,\u201d the First Nation said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two people were critically injured and two had serious injuries, the emergency health services spokesperson, Brian Twaites, said. The others were treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Veronica Schooner, a parent of one of the children, said a lot of people tried to stop the attack but one male teacher \u201cgot the whole brunt of it\u201d and was among the people taken by helicopter from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Schooner\u2019s 10-year-old son, Alvarez, was in the class of fourth- and fifth-graders and was so close to the animal \u201che even felt its fur\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cHe said that bear ran so close to him, but it was going after somebody else,\u201d Schooner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">She added that some children were hit with bear spray as the teachers fought off the bear and Alvarez was limping and his shoes were muddy from running for safety. Her son\u2019s thoughts, however, were with his classmates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cHe keeps crying for his friends, and oh my goodness, right away he started praying for his friends,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Acwsalcta school, an independent school run by Nuxalk First Nation in Bella Coola, said in a Facebook post that the school would be closed on Friday and counseling made available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to know what to say during this very difficult time. We are so grateful for our team and our students,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grizzly bear has attacked a group of schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in British Columbia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":394931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-394930","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\/115588450608794040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394930","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=394930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}