PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) \u2014 A mountain lion bit a 4-year-old who was walking with their family over the weekend on a popular trail in Olympic National Park in Washington state, park officials said Monday.<\/p>\n
The child was injured during Sunday\u2019s attack and flown to a trauma center in Seattle for treatment, according to a statement from the National Park Service.<\/p>\n
The attack by a mountain lion fitted with a tracking collar was near an overlook on Hurricane Ridge, a popular mountain area with expansive views.<\/p>\n
The attack was reported to rangers around 3:15 p.m. on Sunday and paramedics and park staff traveled to the injured child, according to the National Park Service.<\/p>\n
Rangers immediately started searching for the cougar and by Monday, park staff had \u201cdispatched the animal,\u201d the statement said using a term that generally refers to killing an animal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no current threats to the public,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
Officials said they would not be releasing any identifying information about the child to protect their identity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) \u2014 A mountain lion bit a 4-year-old who was walking with their family over…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[15225,3425,4219,168,57,1667,11686,29480,50,2086,61,67,132,68,2057,2058],"class_list":{"0":"post-82773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-animal-attacks","10":"tag-animals","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-domestic-news","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-mountain-lions","15":"tag-national-park-service","16":"tag-national-parks","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-seattle","19":"tag-u-s-news","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-wa-state-wire","24":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114896075780064705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82773","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=82773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}