250-pound bear mauls 10-calendar year-outdated boy playin in grandparents’ backyard

MORRIS, Conn.— A 250-pound (113-kilogram) black bear mauled a 10-year-old boy playing in his grandparents’ backyard in Connecticut and tried out to drag him absent before the animal was fatally shot by law enforcement, authorities explained.

The child was attacked about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town of Morris, the condition Division of Power and Environmental Protection stated. He was taken to a hospital for cure of accidents that have been not everyday living-threatening.

Officers from the condition law enforcement and DEEP’s environmental conservation force responded and shot the bear, authorities mentioned.

The boy’s grandfather explained the harrowing assault to the Republican-American of Waterbury. James Butler reported his grandson was playing close to a trampoline when the bear emerged from thick woods driving the dwelling.

“I read him yell ‘bear’ and when I appeared up, I saw his leg in the bear’s mouth and the bear making an attempt to drag him across the lawn,” Butler mentioned.

Butler, who takes advantage of a wheelchair, wheeled his chair towards the bear and threw a steel bar at its head, he instructed the newspaper.

The bear produced the boy but then grabbed the little one a next time and utilised its claws to try out to roll the boy on to his again, the grandfather mentioned.

A neighbor alerted by the boy’s screams raced about and fearful the bear off by brandishing a pipe and yelling, Butler reported.

As soon as Butler and his grandson were safely and securely inside the property, the bear returned, walking up a wheelchair ramp and peering at them via display doorway, Butler mentioned.